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Genre:
"Prose"
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Work title:
"Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions"
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Literary Period:
"Industrial Revolution"
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"Nineteenth Century"
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"Reform and Counterrevolution"
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"Romantic"
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Metaphor Category:
"Optics"
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Date: 1817
"The fashionable journal is expected to be a mirror of public opinion in its own party, a brilliant magnifying mirror, in which the mind of the public may see itself look large and handsome."
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Date: 1817
"In our perceptions we seem to ourselves merely passive to an external power, whether as a mirror reflecting the landscape, or as a blank canvas on which some unknown hand paints it."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)