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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Politics of Author:
"Tory"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Romantic"
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Work title:
"The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D."
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Metaphor Category:
"Motion"
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Date: 1791
"The dissipation of thought, of which you complain, is nothing more than the vacillation of a mind suspended between different motives, and changing its direction as any motive gains or loses strength."
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Date: 1791
"I cannot allow any fragment whatever that floats in my memory concerning the great subject of this work to be lost."
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