Your search for
Literary Period:
"Industrial Revolution"
AND
Gender of Author:
"Male"
AND
Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
AND
Religion of Author:
"Church of Scotland"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Body"
AND
Genre:
"Poetry"
AND
Work title:
"The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius. A Poem."
returned 2 results(s) in 0.001 seconds
Date: 1771, 1776
"'Fancy enervates, while it sooths, the heart, / 'And, while it dazzles, wounds the mental sight: / 'To joy each heightening charm it can impart, / 'But wraps the hour of wo in tenfold night."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1771, 1776
"And Reason now through Number, Time, and Space, / 'Darts the keen lustre of her serious eye, / 'And learns, from facts compared, the laws to trace, / 'Whose long progression leads to Deity."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)