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"Industrial Revolution"
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returned 3 results(s) in 0.001 seconds
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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returned 3 results(s) in 0.001 seconds
Date: 1761, 1790
"Ev'n from this dark confinement with delight / She [the mind] looks abroad, and prunes herself for flight; / Like an unwilling inmate longs to roam / From this dull earth, and seek her native home."
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787); Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1706-1760)
Date: 1765
"As when the greedy fowler's snare / The birds by providence elude, / Our souls are rescu'd from despair, / And their free flight renew'd."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1780
"The best way therefore is, whilst the mind of the historian is on horseback, for his style to walk on foot, and take hold of the rein, that it may not be left behind."
preview | full record— Francklin, Thomas (1721–1784); Lucian (b.c. 125, d. after 180)
