( conjectural )
1755 to 1756
Original paper slip text:[1755–1756?]
Copy of an essay [on the imagination and works of art], preceded by a quotation from Lucretius; possibly from the Spectator?
18 p.
JA—Literary Exercises, Translations &c.
- Headed: "No. 411 [whole number of a newspaper or periodical? or number of a collection of essays?]. Saturday, June 21 [1755?]," with the date "13 April 1756" at the end.
- Begins: "Our Sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our Senses."
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