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Work title:
"The Discourses"
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"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Date: December 10, 1774; 1775
"He will pick up from dunghills what by a nice chymistry, passing through his own mind, shall be converted into pure gold; and, under the rudeness of Gothic essays, he will find original, rational, and even sublime inventions."
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)