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Anna Letitia Barbauld: While Genius was...

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While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

Source: The Hill of Science, Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose, 1773.
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld, (Jun 20 1743-1825), English poet, writer; She was one of the foremost radical intellectual women of her time; edited the fifty volumes of The British Novelists, 1810.


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