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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Politics of Author:
"Tory"
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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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Religion of Author:
"Anglican"
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Work title:
"Rambler No. 19"
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"Fetters"
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Date: Tuesday, May 22, 1750
"He saw that, instead of conquering their fears, the endeavour of his gay friends was only to escape them; but his philosophy chained his mind to its object, and rather loaded him with shackles than furnished him with arms."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)