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Date: 1789?
"Pale Fear, and all her haggard train, / That generate and nurture pain, / And each unwelcome mental guest, / Lay dormant in the human breast."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1791
"But in thy breast a mind inhabits, proof / Against all charms."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: w. 1794, 1797
"'Tis only those of purer clay / 'From sensual dross refined, / 'In whom the passions pleas'd obey / 'The God within the mind, / 'Who share my delegated aid, / 'Through Wisdom's golden mean convey'd / 'From the first source of sov'reign good."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)