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Date: 1788
"When reason governs, as her Maker meant, / Each subject passion feels its proper bent."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"And the mind's poor infirmities dash'd from their throne, / Forgetting the weakness that lives in their own."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"Like a beggar at law, whom no barrister blesses, / His mind lacks an agent to plead its distresses; / All his muscles rebel 'gainst judicious controul"
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)