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Literary Period
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Age of Sensibility
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Early Modern (4)
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Eighteenth Century
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Long Eighteenth Century
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- Metaphor Category
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Poetry
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English
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Work title:
"Fragments of an Intended Second Part of the Foregoing Satyr."
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1759
"Words are but Pictures, tru or False Designd / To Draw the Lines, and Features of the Minde"
preview | full record— Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)
Date: 1759
"Their [pedants'] poring upon black and white too subtly / Has turn'd the Insides of their Brains to motly."
preview | full record— Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)
Date: 1759
"Their [pedants'] constant overstraining of the Mind / Distorts the Brain, as Horses break their Wind / Or rude Confusions of the Things they read / Get up, like noxious Vapours, in the Head, / Until they have their constant Wanes and Fulls, / And Changes in the Insides of their Skulls."
preview | full record— Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)
Date: 1759
"Whence Multitudes of reverend Men and Critics / Have got a kind of intellectual Rickets, / And by th'immoderate Excess of Study / Have found the sickly Head t'outgrow the Body.
preview | full record— Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)
