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"Prose"
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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Work title:
"An Essay on Original Genius"
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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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Date: 1767
"Thus it appears to be in every respect a proper counterbalance to the RAMBLING and VOLATILE power of IMAGINATION. The one, perpetually attempting to soar, is apt to deviate into the mazes of error; while the other arrests the wanderer in its vagrant course, and compels it to follow the path of n...
preview | full record— Duff, William (1732-1815)