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"Restoration"
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"Fire"
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"Motion"
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Date: 1713
"In a Glass-House, the Workmen often fling in a small quantity of fresh Coals, which seems to disturb the Fire, but very much enlivens it. This seems to allude to a gentle stirring of the Passions, that the Mind may not languish."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)