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Gender of Author:
"Female"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Work title:
"Ode to Wisdom [from Gentleman's Magazine]"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Government"
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Date: 1746; December 17, 1747 [actually January, 1748]
"To me thy better gifts impart, / Each moral beauty of the heart / By studious thought refin’d: / For Wealth, the smiles of glad Content, / For Pow’r, it samplest, best extent, / An empire o’er my mind."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)