Date: 1797
" For, Cupid, well thou know'st, the tender soul, / That Poesy inspires, is very wax / To Beauty's piercing ray"
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Date: 1797
"[M]ark it well, / And stamp the awful moral on your souls"
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Date: 1797
" Soft female hearts are prone as wax to melt, / And, true or false, impressions will be felt;"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1797
"Youth's yielding clay too easily receives / The featur'd stamp that cross-ey'd cunning gives"
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Date: w. 1766, 1797
" His youth, his comeliness, his country too, / Will stamp him very Curan in her heart"
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Date: w. 1766, 1797
"Has my moral pencil / So oft portray'd the forms of truth and falshood, / In their just lineaments, to thy mind's eye"
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Date: w. 1766, 1797
"The future whole infix upon thy mind; / Be there each line in truth ideal drawn"
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Date: 1799
"Mock as you will, I cannot, like you, steel my heart against the common feelings of humanity"
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Date: 1799
"Ah, you lucky dog! you have an estate in every corner of your brain, and a pretty income at the end of every finger."
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