-
Literary Period
-
Age of Sensibility
-
Early Modern (2)
-
Eighteenth Century
-
Industrial Revolution
-
Long Eighteenth Century
-
Romantic (2)
-
-
Metaphor Category
-
Optics
-
Body (1)
-
Impressions (1)
-
Liquid (1)
-
Uncategorized (1)
-
- Genre
- Gender of Author
- Nationality of Author
- Politics of Author
-
Religion of Author
-
Dissenter or Nonconformist
-
Your search for
Religion of Author:
"Dissenter or Nonconformist"
AND
Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
,
"Eighteenth Century"
,
"Industrial Revolution"
,
"Long Eighteenth Century"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Optics"
returned 2 results(s) in 0.001 seconds
AND
Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
,
"Eighteenth Century"
,
"Industrial Revolution"
,
"Long Eighteenth Century"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Optics"
returned 2 results(s) in 0.001 seconds
Date: 1788
"And ah! the blessings valued most / By human minds, are blessings lost / Unlike the objects of the eye, / Enlarging, as we bring them nigh, / Our joys, at distance strike the breast, / And seem diminish'd when possest."
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1788
There are those "whom the traffic of their race / Has robb'd of every human grace; / Whose harden'd souls no more retain / Impressions Nature stamp'd in vain; / All that distinguishes their kind, / For ever blotted from their mind; / As streams, that once the landscape gave / Reflected o...
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
