Date: 1772-1781, 1781
"But, if thy faint springs / Refuse this large supply, steel thy firm soul / With stoic pride"
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Date: 1781
The "passive mind" may be (merely) impressed by substances and modes
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: December, 1781; 1835
"Smooth, ductile, and even, [the poet's] fancy must flow, / Must tinkle and glitter like gold to the sight / And catch in its progress a sensible glow."
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Date: 1782
"'Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, / Our most important are our earliest years. / The mind impressible and soft, with ease / Imbibes and copies what she hears and sees, / And through life's labyrinth holds fast the clue /That education gives her, false or true."
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Date: 1782
The mind may be "unfurnish'd" and listless
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Date: 1782
Superficial education slights "the precious kernel of the stone" and polishes "its rough coat alone"
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Date: 1782
"Faults in the life breed errors in the brain"
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Date: 1782
"The mind and conduct mutually imprint / And stamp their image in each other's mint."
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Date: 1782
"As woodbine weds the plants within her reach, / Rough elm, or smooth-grain'd ash, or glossy beech, / In spiral rings ascends the trunk, and lays / Her golden tassels on the leafy sprays, / But does a mischief while she lends a grace, / Straitening its growth by such a strict embrace, / So love t...
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