Date: 1731, 1753
"Shines there a captain, form'd, for war's controul, / Born, with the seeds of conquest, in his soul?"
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Date: 1733-4
"As fruits ungrateful to the planter's care / On savage stocks inserted learn to bear; / The surest Virtues thus from Passions shoot, / Wild Nature's vigor working at the root."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1734
"While Gold will make their Minds to bow, / As Fire doe's green Wood, any how."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1734
"Grant but as many sorts of mind, as Moss."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1734
"Tis Education forms the vulgar mind: / Just as the Twig is bent, the Tree's inclin'd."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1733-4
"Th' Eternal Art educing good from ill, / Grafts on this Passion our best principle: / 'Tis thus the Mercury of Man is fix'd, / Strong grows the Virtue with his nature mix'd."
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Date: 1735
"And if such dormant Reason bears no fruit, / Dead in the branch, tho' real at the root, / Defect and actual Ignorance are one,"
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1735
"Thro' the dark Void ev'n gleams of Truth can shoot, / And love of Liberty upheave at root."
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1735
"No more the tender seeds unquicken'd lie, / But stretch their form and wait for wings to fly."
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1735
"That Thought romantic Memory detains / In unknown cells and in aereal chains; / Imagination thence her flow'rs translates, / And Fancy emulous of God, creates."
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