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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican"
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Work title:
"On the Power of the Supreme Being"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: January, 1754; 1791
"Survey the magnet's sympathetic love, / That wooes the yielding needle; contemplate / Th'attractive amber's power, invisible / Ev'n to the mental eye."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: January, 1754; 1791
"[B]affled here / By his omnipotence Philosophy / Slowly her thoughts inadequate revolves, / And stands, with all his circling wonders round her, / Like heavy Saturn in th'etherial space / Begirt with an inexplicable ring."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)