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French Revolution
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Industrial Revolution (1843)
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Romantic (1843)
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Eighteenth Century (1409)
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Age of Sensibility (1231)
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Date: 1798 [1797?]
"Man is the same in ev'ry clime and state, / Few are his virtues, and his faults are great: / In all, one grand similitude we find, / One universal law directs the mind."
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Date: 1798 [1797?]
"But see how poor a wretch he is, how blind! / The Sun of Science, dawns not on his mind."
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Date: 1798 [1797?]
"Some wretches shut their eyes to reason's light, / Their evil habits wantonly invite, / To headstrong passions yield without remorse, / Call each prevailing whim, their Hobby Horse, / And screen'd beneath the sanction of that name, / Freely indulge their vices without shame."
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Date: 1798 [1797?]
"Fastidious Prudes, on Spleen's black palfrey vault, / Chaste to a proverb, virtuous to a fault."
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Date: 1798 [1797?]
"In Yorick's heart meek Mercy rear'd her throne."
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Date: 1798 [1797?]
"Too much abounds, in this romantic age, / The horrid tale, and fear-inspiring page; / The noxious draughts from terror's poison'd bowl, / Shake the firm nerve, emasculate the soul, / The deadly bloit of prejudice impart, / And nip the fairest blossoms of the heart."
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Date: 1798 [1797?]
"Too much abounds, in this romantic age, / The horrid tale, and fear-inspiring page; / The noxious draughts from terror's poison'd bowl, / Shake the firm nerve, emasculate the soul, / The deadly bloit of prejudice impart, / And nip the fairest blossoms of the heart."
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Date: 1798 [1797?]
"O hail, thou blest anticipated day! / Gild my young Muse with one enlightened ray: / So shall thy light each intellect refine, / Burn in each thought, and glow thro' ev'ry line.
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Date: 1798 [1797?]
"Hail, happy dawn! thy glorious sun shall rise, / Beam on the dreary night of polar skies; / Chase the thick mists of ignorance away, / And on the darkest mind emit full day."
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Date: 1798 [1797?]
"Ah! who can tell what pow'rs that mind possess'd, / What flames of lambent genius warm'd his breast!"
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
