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"English"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican"
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Work title:
"On the Eternity of the Supreme Being"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Animals"
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"Fire"
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Date: April 1750, 1791
"Tho' gratitude were bless'd with all the pow'rs / Her bursting heart cou'd long for, tho' the swift, / The firey-wing'd imagination soar'd / Beyond ambition's wish--yet all were vain / To speak him as he is, who is INEFFABLE."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)