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Genre:
"Prose"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Author name:
"Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican with Enthusiastic or Evangelical Tendencies"
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Metaphor Category:
"Animals"
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Date: 1759
"That a Man may be scarce less ignorant of his own powers, than an Oyster of its pearl, or a Rock of its diamond; that he may possess dormant, unsuspected abilities, till awakened by loud calls, or stung up by striking emergencies, is evident from the sudden eruption of some men, out of perfec...
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