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"Mineral"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Work title:
"On Happiness"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Date: 1702
"We'll think she brings with her Estate a Mind, / Pure as her Sterling, from it's Dross Refin'd."
preview | full record— Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701)
Date: 1727
"Ned cou'd not well digest this Change, / Forc'd in the World at large to range; / With Babel's Monarch turn'd to grass, / Wou'd it not break an Heart of Brass?"
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1734
"Conscience hears / The words of anguish, and dissolves in tears. / Ev'n iron souls relent, and hearts of stone / Burst at these mournings, and repeat the groan:"
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)