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Genre:
"Prose"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican"
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Work title:
"Being There"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"French Revolution"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Romantic"
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Metaphor Category:
"Mineral"
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"Money"
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Date: 1790
"Men are caught indeed by the effusions of a brilliant fancy and bright imagination; but its refulgence and flashes, like the coruscations of the diamond, serve only to sparkle in the eye of the beholder, and to dazzle his sight, without further use or advantage to any one: whereas practical good...
preview | full record— Moore, Charles (fl. 1785-90)