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Genre:
"Prose"
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Work title:
"Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event"
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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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"Romantic"
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Metaphor Category:
"Light"
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Date: 1790
"All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle, and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of...
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1790
"This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)