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Nationality of Author:
"American"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"French Revolution"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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Metaphor Category:
"Plant"
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Date: 1793
"For her own child, all the feelings of a parental bosom vegetated in luxuriance."
preview | full record— Anonymous [By an American Lady]
Date: 1793
"Mrs. Leason has one child, blessed with good natural abilities, and educated by a less indulgent parent, she might have shone in a domestic character, but when the idea is instilled in the youthful mind, that it is to be indulged in all its wishes, let the disposition be ever so pleasing, the so...
preview | full record— Anonymous [By an American Lady]
Date: 1793
"If the mind is a barren waste, of what avail are the beauties of the most lovely face, the elegance of the most enchanting shape, the grace of the most accomplished person; the imperceptible hand of time will deprive them of every external charm, and eclipse the lustre of the most penetrating eye."
preview | full record— Anonymous [By an American Lady]
