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"Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)"
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"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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Date: 1777, 1810
"And oft the bard's elastic mind / To lighter images inclined; / In concord with Anacreon's measure, / Courts the jovial gods of pleasure."
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Date: 1777, 1810
"Well-pleased, in fancy he surveys, / With fancy's mimick tint pourtrays / The fate elysian of the swain, / Who, stranger to his nymph's disdain, / Feels the true zest of Cupid's reign, / His lasting joys enhanced by momentary pain."
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