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"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Church of Scotland"
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"Prose"
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Date: 1774
"No sooner does the imagination, in a moment of wandering, suggest any idea not conducive to the design, than the conception of this design breaks in of its own accord, and, like an antagonist muscle, counteracting the other association, draws us off to the view of a more proper idea."
preview | full record— Gerard, Alexander (1728-1795)