Date: April 17, 1795
"Like Britain's Monarch" an audience may "act [their] generous parts, /And fix [their] empire, in [actors] greatful hearts.
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Date: April 17, 1795
"At Hymen's altar claim the chain / That twines two willing hearts in one!"
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Date: 1806
"Go forth, ye glorious conquerors of the mind"
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Date: 1806
"'Now on the bosom of the list'ning Youth / 'Impress, engrave the sacred form of Truth"
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Date: 1806
"Tho' party-zeal inflam'd his iron heart, / And prejudice sharp pointed ev'ry dart; / With glowing thoughts, his mind profusely teem'd."
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Date: 1811, 1812
In the "deep record of the Sibyl's leaves, / There no instruction the blank mind receives."
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Date: 1811, 1812
"The soul, a cheering lamp, the scene illumes, / Fed with the splendour of ethereal rays, / And bright'ning still, as still the frame decays"
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Date: 1854
"Let it [caelestïal Sweetness] not stop when entred at the Ear / But sink, and take deep rooting in my heart."
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Date: 1975
"But at a certain age, the age at which promotions and Chairs begin to occupy a man's thoughts, he may look back with wistful nostalgia to the day's when his wits ran fresh and clear, directed to a single, positive goal."
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Date: 1975
"In the preceding months he had prepared himself with meticulous care, filling his mind with distilled knowledge, drop by drop, until, on the eve of the first paper (Old English Set Texts) it was almost brimming over."
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