Date: 1758
Truth is the "Great queen of harmony ... whose moral scepter rules the hearts of kings"
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Date: 1758
"Deep in their soules ye fair impression lay, / Deep-tracd & never to be worn away."
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Date: 1758
"If at the type our dreaming soules awake, / & Hannahs strains their Just impression make"
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Date: 1766
"Love laugh'd, and, sure of conquest, wing'd a dart / Unerring, to her undefended heart."
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Date: 1766
"To stamp Fraternity on gen'rous hearts: [...] Celestial Charity to-night descends"
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Date: 1766
"Fancy leads the fetter'd senses / Captives to her fond controul; / Merit may have rich pretences, / But 'tis Fancy fires the soul."
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Date: 1766
"Far beyond the bonds of meaning / Fancy flies, a Fairy queen!"
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Date: 1763, 1767
"So stern Philosophy severe affirms, / With shrunk abstracted eye, and iron soul."
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Date: 1763, 1767
"The guardian genius of his dawning thought, / Who wide disclos'd to wisdom's sacred ray / The eager inlets of his ample mind, / And pour'd upon each opening mental cell, / The virtue-forming scientific beam / With letter'd and religious radiance fill'd, / The fair expanses of his princely soul, ...
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Date: 1763, 1767
"Where shape, and air, and symmetry divine, / And rays reflected from the source of thought, / That beam intuitive throughout the eye, / The speaking eye, that window of the mind."
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