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Genre:
"Prose"
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Religion of Author:
"Church of Scotland"
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Work title:
"An Essay on Original Genius"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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Metaphor Category:
"Animals"
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"Light"
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Date: 1767
"Ordinary minds seldom rise above the dull uniform tenor of common sentiments, like those animals that are condemned to creep on the ground all the days of their life; but the most lawless excursions of an original Genius, like the flight of an eagle, are towering, though devious; its path, as th...
preview | full record— Duff, William (1732-1815)