Date: 1712, 1796
"Her body delicate, wherein enshrin'd, / As in its temple, dwelt a virtuous mind."
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Date: w. 1703, 1712
"And all the Furies wake within their Breast."
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Date: w. 1703, 1712
"Returning Thoughts in endless Circles roll, / And thousand Furies haunt his guilty Soul."
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Date: 1712
"When she to foreign Objects Audience gives, / Their Strokes and Motions in the Brain perceives, / As these Perceptions we Ideas name, / From her own Pow'r and active Nature came, / So when discern'd by Intellectual Light, / Her self her various Passions does excite, / To Ill her Hate, to Good he...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
"These Out-guards of the Mind are sent abroad, / And still patrolling beat the neighb'ring Road: / Or to the Parts remote obedient fly, / Keep Posts advanc'd, and on the Frontier lye."
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Date: 1712
"The watchful Centinels at ev'ry Gate, / At ev'ry Passage to the Senses wait."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
"Still travel to and fro the Nervous way, / And their Impressions to the Brain convey, / Where their Report the Vital Envoys make, / And with new Orders are remanded back."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
"But other Spirits govern'd by the Will / Shoot thro' their Tracks, and distant Muscles fill. / This Sov'raign by his arbitrary Nod / Restrains, or sends his Ministers abroad."
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Date: 1712
"Where dwells this Sovereign Arbitrary Soul, / Which does the human Animal controul, / Inform each Part, and agitate the whole?"
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Date: 1712
"O'er Ministerial Senses [the soul] does preside, / To all their various Provinces divide, / Each Member move, and ev'ry Motion guide."
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