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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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Work title:
"To Hope"
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Date: 1782
"Peace be to those (such peace as earth can give,) / Who live in pleasure, dead even while they live; / Born capable indeed of heavenly truth, / But down to latest age from earliest youth, / Their mind a wilderness through want of care, / The plough of wisdom never entering there."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)