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Date: 1761
"It is not the soft power of humanity, it is not that feeble spark of benevolence which Nature has lighted up in the human heart, that is thus capable of counteracting the strongest impluses of self-love."
preview | full record— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)
Date: 1766
"Faction's torch of sulphurous gleam / Shall fire the heart that feels not Fancy's beam."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1771, 1776
"The gloomy race / 'By Indolence and moping Fancy bred, / 'Fear, Discontent, Solicitude give place, / 'And Hope and Courage brighten in their stead, / 'While on the kindling soul her vital beams are shed."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
