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AND Politics of Author: "Jacobin Sympathies"

AND Nationality of Author: "English"

AND Gender of Author: "Male"

AND Literary Period: "Eighteenth Century"

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Date: 1794

" The Human Face, a Furnace seal'd / The Human Heart, its hungry Gorge."

— Blake, William (1757-1827)

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Date: 1794, 1797

"If you have reduced me to the necessity of again debating the same painful and gloomy question, if you cannot give that elasticity to my mind which will animate it to despise difficulty and steel it against injustice, however good your intentions may have been, I fear you have but imposed misery...