Date: 1790
"The dreadful tales of robbers' bloody deeds, / That oft had swell'd his theme while nightly stretch'd / Now crowded on his mind in all their rage / Of pistols, purses, stand! deliver! death!"
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Date: 1789, 1791, 1799
"Throned in the vaulted heart, his dread resort, / Inexorable Conscience holds his court"
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Date: 1789, 1791, 1799
"Oft tho' thy genius, Darwin! amply fraught / With native wealth, explore new worlds of mind; / Whence the bright ores of drossless wisdom brought, / Stampt by the Muse's hand, enrich mankind"
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Date: 1789, 1791, 1799
"When Air's pure essence joins the vital flood, / And with phosphoric Acid dyes the blood, / Your Virgin trains the transient Heat dispart, / And lead the soft combustion round the heart; / Life's holy lamp with fires successive feed"
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Date: 1793
"There, train'd amid slaughter and ruin to wade, / They toil in the heart-steeling, barbarous trade."
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Date: 1803
"[W]rithing Mania sits on Reason's throne, /Or Melancholy marks it for her own"
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Date: 1803
"Reason's empire o'er the world presides, / And man from brute, and man from man divides"
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Date: 1803
"Charms with soft words, and sooths with amorous wiles, / Her iron-hearted Lord,--and Pluto smiles."
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Date: [1805?] 1810, 1812, 1818
"Where bloody Butler's iron-hearted crew, / Doomed to the flames the weak submitting few"
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