Date: 1678
"Dares afraid his reasons house / (Though he had scarce so much as goose) / About his batter'd ears should tumble"
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Date: 1678
"He lik't not banging sans defeizance. / While t'other labors all he can / To make a window to his brain."
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Date: 1681
"Some livelier spark of heaven, and more refined / From earthly dross, fills the great poet's mind."
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Date: 1682
"'Tis not a Flash of Fancy which sometimes / Dasling our Minds, sets off the slightest Rimes; / Bright as a blaze, but in a moment done; / True Wit is everlasting, like the Sun; / Which though sometimes beneath a cloud retir'd, / Breaks out again, and is by all admir'd."
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Date: 1682
"Where dost thou dwell? what caverns of the Brain / Can such a vast and mighty thing contain?"
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Date: 1682
"Fancy is but the Feather of the Pen; / Reason is that substantial useful part, / Which gains the Head, while t'other wins the Heart."
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Date: 1685
"Victorious Reason" may "afford / A Nobler Conquest then the Sword"
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