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"Body"
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"Light"
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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Author name:
"Gerard, Alexander (1728-1795)"
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Gender of Author:
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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Religion of Author:
"Church of Scotland"
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Date: 1774
"While a man is engaged in composition or investigation, he often seems to himself to be fired with his subject, and to teem with ideas; but on revising the work, finds that his judgment is offended, and his time lost. An idea that sparkled in the eye of fancy, is often condemned by judgment as f...
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