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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:
"Body"
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"Light"
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Date: 1767
"An original Author indeed will frequently be apt to exceed in the use of this ornament, by pouring forth such a blaze of imagery, as to dazzle and overpower the mental sight; the effect of which is, that his Writings become obscure, if not unintelligible to common Readers; just as the eye is for...
preview | full record— Duff, William (1732-1815)