Date: 1731
The soul may join "her great Original," "Like a Sun Beam that springs with vibrant Force, / And darts to meet its ever-glorious Source"
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Date: 1731
"Or here on Earth in diff'rent Bodies plac'd, / Still Acts new Scenes, forgetful of the past: / Till from her dull material Chain set free, / (The mortal Curtain drawn) she smiles to see, / The various Prospects of Immensity."
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1731
"Here Arlington, thy mighty Mind disdains / Inferior Earth, and breaks its servile Chains, / Aloft on Contemplations Wings you rise, / Scorn all below and mingle with the Skies."
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Date: 1731
"Worn out with Cares, and tott'ring in her Seat, / The Soul resigns her Throne, and seeks Retreat."
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Date: 1731
"No longer Reason could her Empire boast, / But in the soft Astonishment was lost."
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Date: 1735, 1792
"Just so supreme, unmated, and alone, / The Soul assumes her intellectual throne"
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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
"The blood tempestuous, pours a flushing wave" and "With raging swell alternate pantings rise"
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Date: 1735, 1792
The mind "speeds her ministry abroad, / And rules obedient matter with a nod" as "The obsequious mass beneath her influence yields, /And even her will the unwieldy fabric wields"
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Date: 1735, 1792
"Tho' winding paths" the soul's "sprightly envoys fly, / Or watchful in the frontier senses lie"
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