Date: 1790
"'The hero's heart is neither steel nor flint"
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Date: 1790
"For what heart, / Not made of steel, could look on such a scene, / Three armies deep and strong, with countless horse, / Chariots untold, innumerable foot"
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Date: 1791
"The generous Mind expanding into Joy, / While no mean Passion mixt its base Alloy;"
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Date: w. 1780, 1792
"Blest be the tribute of those tears, that start / From Friendship's eye, the mirrors of the heart."
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Date: 1792
Rude signs may be expressive of "moral sense / Stamp'd on each heart"
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Date: 1792
"[T]he heart's decisions" may be "stamp'd / By Nature's seal, and man's primæval laws"
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Date: 1792
"They bade retentive memory on their mind / Impress each image, in distinctive lines / That mock'd erasure."
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Date: 1792
The Roman senators moved the mind by sympathetic strokes and oped "the effect of each impression on their own warm mind"
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Date: 1792
The Roman senators "ne'er essay'd to steal into the heart, / By painting to the feelings"
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Date: 1792
The Roman senators did "Not shew the mental portraiture itself, / By gradual art, thro' fancy's calmer light. / Pure passion dwells not on description's hues"
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