Date: 1785
"Thy saints proclaim thee King; and in their hearts / Thy title is engraven with a pen / Dipt in the fountain of eternal love"
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Date: 1785
"Mark now the proof I give thee, that the brave / Need no such aids as superstition lends / To steel their hearts against the dread of death!"
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Date: 1785
"He that attends to his interior self, [...] Has business; feels himself engaged to achieve / No unimportant, though a silent task."
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Date: 1785
The "eyesight of discovery" may be blinded by constraints
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Date: 1785
"Threads of politic and shrewd design" that charge the mind with meanings may be (or not, as it were) disentangled from "the puzzled skein"
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Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"And the mind's poor infirmities dash'd from their throne, / Forgetting the weakness that lives in their own."
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Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"She can conquer a heart--that she wants sense to keep."
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Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"For spells may be said to exist in that tone, / Whose graces can conquer all hearts--but her own."
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Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"So poignant a mind in a vulgariz'd shell,/ Resembles a bucket of gold in a well; / 'Tis like Ceylon's best spice in a rude-fashion'd jar, / Or Comedy coop'd in a Dutch man of war."
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Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
A mind may be like "clear amber, conden'd by stagnation," it may exhibit "the dirt it imbib'd in formation"
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