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Genre:
"Prose"
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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Work title:
"To the Critics"
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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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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1783
"At this window (as the wise man calls it) the soul is often seen in her genuine character, even when the porter below (I mean the tongue) is endeavouring to persuade us, that she is not within, that she is otherwise employed, or that she is quite a different person"
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1783
"Does the human soul go up to the pia mater, as a housewife does to her garret, only at certain times? Or, if she makes it her place of abode, are there any corners of it which she is unacquainted with, or neglects to look into?'
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)