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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:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Liquid"
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"Motion"
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Date: 1759
"Their grief, however, like their joy, was transient; every thing floated in their mind unconnected with the past or future, so that one desire easily gave way to another, as a second stone cast into the water effaces and confounds the circles of the first."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)