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"Liquid"
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Religion of Author:
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"Early Modern"
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"Restoration"
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Work title:
"To the Critics"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Politics of Author:
"From Whig to Tory"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"As on the land while here the Ocean gains, / In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains; / Thus in the soul while memory prevails, / The solid pow'r of understanding fails; / Where beams of warm imagination play, / The memory's soft figures melt away."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)