Date: 1774
"As in madness, the senses, from struggling with the imagination, are at length forced to submit, so, in sleep, they seem for a while soothed into the like submission: the smallest violence exerted upon any one of them, however, rouzes all the rest in their mutual defence; and the imagination, th...
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Date: 1776
"he more approaching to the testimony of our senses every philosophical solution is, the more perhaps is it conformable to nature."
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Date: 1820
"We'll make his temple in our breast, / And offer up a tear."
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