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Literary Period:
"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Gerard, Alexander (1728-1795)"
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Date: 1774
"When an ingenious track of thinking presents itself, though but casually, to true genius, occupied it may be with something else, imagination darts alongst it with great rapidity; and by this rapidity its ardor is more inflamed. The velocity of its motion sets it on fire, like a chariot wheel wh...
preview | full record— Gerard, Alexander (1728-1795)
Date: 1774
"It is enraptured by every striking form, it fills the soul with high enthusiasm, it sets the fancy on fire, it pushes it forward with impetuosity, renders all its conceptions glowing, and bestows a freedom and becoming negligence on its productions."
preview | full record— Gerard, Alexander (1728-1795)