Date: 1782
"To captivate admiring Fancy's eyes, / She bids celestial decorations rise; / But, as a playful and capricious child / Frowns at the splendid toy on which it smiled; / So wayward Fancy now with scorn surveys / Those specious Miracles she lov'd to praise; / Still fond of change, and fickle Fashion...
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Date: 1780, 1788
"In that bright day, whose wonders blind / The eye of the astonish'd mind; / When life's glad angel shall resume / His ancient sway"
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Date: 1800
"Teach thou my hand, with mutual love, to trace / His mind, as perfect as thy lines his face!"
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Date: 1800
"Julius! thou proof how mists of pride may blind / The eye of reason in the strongest mind!"
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