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"English"
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Work title:
"Three Essays"
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"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"French Revolution"
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"Romantic"
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Date: 1792
"When we trust to the picture, that objects draw of themselves on the mind, we deceive ourselves. Without accurate, and particular observation, it is but ill-drawn at first: the outlines are soon blurred: the colours, every day grow fainter; and at last, when we would produce it to any body, we a...
preview | full record— Gilpin, William (1724-1804)