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"English"
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"Anglican"
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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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Date: 1790
"'Tis thus the arch deceiver, busy still / To ruin man, besets the female heart, / Insinuates evil counsel, and inflames / The hungry passions, that like arid flax / Catch at a spark, and mount into a blaze."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1793
"Perish the masses for a burning soul, / That never yet extinguish'd half a coal!"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)