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Genre:
"Prose Fiction"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Work title:
"The Adventures of David Simple"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Government"
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Date: 1744, 1753
"But this Agreement of Orgueil and his Wife, to bury Camilla's Father with Decency, by the Pleasure it gave her, renewed David's former Blindness, again enslaved his Mind to Orgueil, and fixed his Chain as strong as ever."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1744, 1753
"Thus my fancied Friends became my Plagues, and my real ones, by their Sufferings, tore up my Heart by the Roots, and frightened me into the bearing the insolent Persecutions of the others--I found my Mind in such Chains as are much worse than any Slavery of the Body."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)