Date: 1693
Thoughts may "transcend all the Bounds of Air, / And like a blazing Comet ... inflame my Sphere."
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Date: June 28, 1693
"Beauties shine thro' the Work, adorn the whole, / Chain up the Sense, and captivate the Soul."
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Date: 1693
"No, I will break this House of Clay, / Which clogs my fleeter Thoughts and Mind."
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Date: 1693
"From her blest Heart there flows a Line, / Which Nature made, and grapples mine. / Secret as that which tyes the Mind, / When to the Body 'tis confin'd"
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Date: 1731
Heaven stamped perfection on Caroline's mind
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Date: 1735, 1792
"Around their queen attendant spirits watch, / Each rising thought with prompt observance catch, / The tidings of internal passion spread, / And thro' each part the swift contagion shed"
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Date: 1735, 1792
[Allegories of taste, smell, sound, and vision.]
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Date: 1735, 1792
" Thro' nature traffick on, from pole to pole, / And stamp new worlds on thy dilated soul"
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Date: 1735, 1792
"'O why of these thy bounteous goods bereft, / 'And only to interior Reason left?"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1735, 1792
"Whence either pulmonary lobe expires, / And all the interior subtile breath retires; / Subsiding lungs[6] their labouring vessels press, / Affected mutual with severe distress, / While towards the left their confluent torrents gush, / And on the heart's sinister cavern rush;"
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