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Age of Sensibility
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Eighteenth Century
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Irish or Anglo-Irish
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Nationality of Author:
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1755
"Yet you disdain the meaner arts / By women us'd to conquer hearts."
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: 1755
" When knowledge vainly tries, to form a rule / For female minds;--ev'n knowledge is a fool. / Nor can the laws of art, or nature fix, / Nor wise philosophy, the wondrous sex"
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: 1755
The "busy Statesman's mind" may grow putrid on the throne of power so that "Fresh vices spring up ev'ry hour; / As in dead corses serpents breed, / And loathsome, on corruption feed"
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: 1755
Samuel Johnson has a "well-turn'd mind" and a "genius pure, as gold refin'd"
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: 1755
"My heart was free from care: / Love was a stranger to my breast"
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
