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"Poetry"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Religion of Author:
"Deist or Theist"
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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Politics of Author:
"Opposition Whig"
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"Population"
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"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1746
"He framed a melting lay, to try her heart; / And, if an infant passion struggled there, / To call that passion forth."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1746
"With inward view, / Thence on the ideal kingdom swift she turns / Her eye; and instant, at her powerful glance, / The obedient phantoms vanish or appear; / Compound, divide, and into order shift, / Each to his rank, from plain perception up / To the fair forms of Fancy's fleeting train."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)