"Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting."

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Our neighbors the Hollanders may be our example in this case; who whilst we have been driving a private trade from port to port, of which we are likely now to be deprived, have conquered so much land in the East and West Indies that it may be said of them, as of the Spaniards, That the sun never sets upon their dominions.

— Thomas Gage