Date: 1742
As an artist pours and extracts gold from a mold, "So virtuous Education forms the Mind, / And leaves for Life the beauteous Stamp behind!"
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Date: 1742
"Where heav'nly Reason with her temperate Light, / Teaches th'unbiass'd Mind to judge aright / There Property secure enjoys her own; / There Conscience sits untroubl'd on her Throne"
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Date: 1749
"Her gentle Sway no sanguine Wreath requir'd; / In Halcyon Hearts she fix'd her friendly Throne."
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Date: 1749
Man, ungoverned by reason or unguided by Instinct, may rush lawless and headlong, leaving "native Joy and gentle Peace behind"
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Date: 1749
"Nature's bright Mirrour in thy Bosom shone"
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Date: 1749
"Not all the Gems, which Indian Mines prepare, / Can with that Ruby in thy Soul compare: / Its bright'ning Blaze like Aaron's Breast shall shine, / Alike refulgent, and alike divine"
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Date: 1749
"Not Rome's sad Ruins such Impressions leave, / As Reason bury'd in the Body's Grave:"
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Date: 1749
The "gentle Passions" may move obedient still, reason rule, and wisdom guide the will
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Date: 1749
"His clouded Soul now darts no dazling Ray, / And faintly warms the animated Clay: / Not Rome's sad Ruins such Impressions leave, / As Reason bury'd in the Body's Grave:"
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Date: 1753
Man stole the "Mimic Arts at first from Heav'n ... To fill the fairest Mansions of the Soul"
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