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Genre:
"Prose"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Work title:
"Disquisitions on Several Subjects"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Weather"
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Date: 1782
"[A] sultry calm fails not to produce a storm, which dissipates the noxious vapours, and restores a purer air; the fiercest tempest, exhausted by its own violence, at length subsides; and an intense sun-shine, whilst it parches up the thirsty earth, exhales clouds, which quickly water it with ref...
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)