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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"A Description of Chedder-Cliffs; And Part of Mendip-Hills near Wells, In Somersetshire. [from Poems on Various Subjects]"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1754
"Thus oft' disguis'd, in poverty we find / Bright genius sparkle thro' an humble mind. / What tho' no gold or diamonds gild the mine, / No glittering strata in the caverns shine; / Yet useful minerals, of various birth, /Lodge in the fruitful bowels of the earth."
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)