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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Work title:
"The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius. A Poem."
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Architecture"
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Date: 1771, 1776
"Fain to implore the aid of Flattery's screen, / Even from thyself thy loathsome heart to hide, / (The mansion then no more of joy serene), / Where fear, distrust, malevolence, abide, / And impotent desire, and disappointed pride?"
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)