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Genre:
"Prose"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican"
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Work title:
"The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it Is; with All Kindes, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes and Several Cures of it"
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Literary Period:
"Civil War and Commonwealth"
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Metaphor Category:
"Writing"
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Date: 1651
"The agent is a doctor or teacher, the passive a scholar; and his office is to keep and further judge of such things as are committed to his charge; as a bare and rased table at first, capable of all forms and notions."
preview | full record— Burton, Robert (1577-1640)