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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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"French Revolution"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Romantic"
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"Scottish"
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"Light"
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Date: 1793
" When painful truths invade the mind, / Ev'n wisdom wishes to be blind, / And hates th' officious ray."
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1796
"Reason's dying lamp / Scarce brighter burns than instinct in their breast"
preview | full record— Bruce, Michael (1746-1767)