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Date: 1726
"I know in descriptions of this nature the scenes are generally supposed to grow out of the author's imagination, and if they are not charming in all their parts, the reader never imputes it to the want of sun or soil, but to the barrenness of invention"
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1780
"There meet together, adultery, avarice, perjury, and every other vice; the soul is overwhelmed beneath them, and justice, modesty, and virtue are no more: bereft of these, the mind becomes dry and barren, or only teems with savage and brutal extravagance."
preview | full record— Francklin, Thomas (1721–1784); Lucian (b.c. 125, d. after 180)
