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Genre:
"Prose"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Work title:
"On Reading Old Books [from The London Magazine]"
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Literary Period:
"Industrial Revolution"
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"Nineteenth Century"
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"Reform and Counterrevolution"
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"Romantic"
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Metaphor Category:
"Body"
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Date: February, 1821
"The reliance on solid worth which it inculcates, the preference of sober truth to gaudy tinsel, hangs like a mill-stone round the neck of the imagination—-'a load to sink a navy'--impedes our progress, and blocks up every prospect in life."
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)