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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"Of Education: To Mr. Bellamy [from Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose]"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1738, 1739
"The Mind, a Blank, when Life begins to flow, / But without Knowledge capable to know, / The God of Nature to our Care commits; / As to the Press we send th' unsully'd Sheets."
preview | full record— Bancks, John (1709-1751)
Date: 1738, 1739
"And as with Milton's Numbers, or with mine, / Those Sheets come forth, as Corbet may enjoin; / So Education on the Mind imprints / Sublime Ideas, or low trivial Hints."
preview | full record— Bancks, John (1709-1751)