Date: 1696
"I told you, Sir, I shou'd appear a Riddle to you: But if my Heart will give me leave, I'le now unloose your fetter'd Apprehension."
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Date: 1696
"For hitherto my Soul has been enslav'd to loose Desires, to vain deluding Follies, and shadows of substantial bliss: but now I wake with joy to find my Rapture Real."
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Date: 1696
"Can Fancy be a surer Guide to Happiness than Reason?"
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Date: 1696
"'Twas heedless Fancy first, that made me stray, / But Reason now breaks forth, and lights me on my way."
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Date: 1696
"Rebellious Reason, talk no more, / Of all my Slaves, I thee abhor."
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Date: 1696
"Hark! how the Warlike Notes inspire / In ev'ry Breast a glowing Fire."
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Date: 1696
"Long since alas! the airy Vision's fled, / And I with wandring Flames my Passion feed."
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Date: December 13, 1700; 1701
"I ne'er saw any yet so fair! such Sweetness in her Look! such Modesty! if we may think the Eye the window to the Heart, she has a thousand treasur'd Virtues there."
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Date: 1719
"The Absence of an old Mistress makes room for a new one--Therefore I have blotted her from my Fancy, like a Painter that strikes one form out of his Cloth, to lay in another."
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Date: 1728
"When Love in an impetuous Torrent flows, / How vainly Reason would its Force oppose; / Hurl'd down the Stream, like Flowers before the Wind, / She leaves to Love, the Empire of the Mind."
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