Date: 1748
"But more he search'd the mind, and roused from sleep / Those moral seeds whence we heroic actions reap."
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Date: 1748
"His soul was fair, / Bright as the children of yon azure sheen!"
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Date: 1748
"O who can speak the vigorous joys of health! / Unclogg'd the body, unobscured the mind."
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Date: 1748
"But here, instead, is foster'd every ill, / Which or distemper'd minds or bodies know."
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Date: 1748
"Let godlike reason, from her sovereign throne, / Speak the commanding word 'I will!' and it is done."
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Date: 1757, 1769
"The king of men to sudden rage resign'd, / At once, the empire of his mighty mind."
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Date: 1757, 1769
"Banish the dire impression from my breast. / For still I see the monster, as he stood."
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Date: 1757, 1769
"As thus to touch his iron heart they try'd, / The Cyclops smiling, scornful thus reply'd:"
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Date: 1759
Woes may haunt the mind (but the Gods may give "cruel Phantoms to the Wind"
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Date: 1759
A "steely Heart can brave the boist'rous Seas"
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