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"English"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican"
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Work title:
"To the Critics"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Dress"
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Date: 1779, 1781
"Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanicks, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy, and the most splendid ideas drop their magnificence...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)