Date: 1703
"Kings may our Hands with Iron Fetters bind, / With Chains severer, you secure the Mind."
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Date: 1703
"So low it [my Condition] sinks me, by my Stile you'll find, / My Body's less in bondage than my Mind."
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Date: 1703
"Man in himself a little World contains / A Soul not subject or to Bonds or Chains."
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Date: 1705
"It did the curious Instruments confound, / And all the winding Labarynths of Sound, / The charming Musick-Rooms, that entertain / The Soul high seated in her Throne the Brain."
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Date: 1705
A monarch may make "all her Subjects" "Friends to her Empire and "in their Hearts" lay "its deep Foundations"
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Date: 1705
"In Characters of Malice, Pride, and Fraud, / Stamp'd on his Mind, my Image I applaud."
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Date: 1705
" In Characters of Malice, Pride, and Fraud, / Stamp'd on his Mind, my Image I applaud."
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Date: 1705
"My Reasons always due Impressions made, / Proofs that are felt, are fittest to perswade."
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Date: 1705
A bullet may efface "The num'rous Lodgings, which did entertain / All Mem'ry's crowded Guests, and Fancy's aeiry Train."
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Date: 1705
"The deadly Bullet thro' his Forehead past, / An Inch above the Eye-brows, and effac'd / The Haunts and Tracks of Learning in the Brain,"
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