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"Gerard, Alexander (1728-1795)"
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"Age of Sensibility"
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Date: 1774
"There is in the human mind a strong propensity to make excursions; which may naturally be expected to exert itself most in those who have the greatest quickness and compass of imagination."
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Date: 1774
"Were reason only slow in her determinations, in comparison with the quickness with which fancy conceives, like Una's dwarf, lagging behind her far away, even this would greatly impede the work of genius, retard its progress, or stop it altogether by constantly curbing the impetuosity of fancy."
preview | full record— Gerard, Alexander (1728-1795)