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Gender of Author:
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Literary Period:
"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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Nationality of Author:
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Date: 1771, 1776
"The mind untaught / 'Is a dark waste, where fiends and tempests howl; / 'As Phebus to the world, is Science to the soul."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1771, 1776
"And Reason now through Number, Time, and Space, / 'Darts the keen lustre of her serious eye, / 'And learns, from facts compared, the laws to trace, / 'Whose long progression leads to Deity."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1774
"Their hearts of comfort felt no ray."
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)