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Work title:
"The Progress of Refinement. A Poem. In Three Parts [from Poems on Various Subjects]"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Romantic"
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Work title:
"The Progress of Refinement. A Poem. In Three Parts [from Poems on Various Subjects]"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Romantic"
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Date: 1787
"What force can free the mind that Vice has chain'd, / Or clear the current if the fountain's stain'd?"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1787
"Her's [Gaul's] was the earliest boast with lenient care / To form soft Courtesy's attractive air; / Throw o'er the willing mind Politeness' chains, / And raise that empire which she yet maintains."
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1787
"The increasing powers of ripening sense pervade / The gloomy stillness of the cloister's shade, / Destroy the bonds that Reason's force confin'd, / And burst the fetters that enchain'd the mind."
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
