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Politics of Author:
"Independent Whig"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Religion of Author:
"Protestant"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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Date: 1702
"The faculties of the Soul, like the parts of the Body, receive nourishment from use, and derive skill as well as they do force and vigour from exercise"
preview | full record— Dennis, John (1658-1734)
Date: 1704
"For he tells us in the beginning of the Treatise that the Sublime does not so properly persuade us, as it Ravishes and Transports us, and produces in us a certain Admiration mingled with astonishment and with surprise, which is quite another thing than the barely Pleasing or the barely perswadin...
preview | full record— Dennis, John (1658-1734)