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Genre:
"Prose Fiction"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Work title:
"[Rasselas] The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale in Two Volumes"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Light"
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Date: 1759
"He compared reason to the sun, of which the light is constant, uniform, and lasting; and fancy to a meteor, of bright but transitory lustre, irregular in its motion, and delusive in its direction."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)