Date: 1803
"[W]rithing Mania sits on Reason's throne, /Or Melancholy marks it for her own"
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Date: 1803
"Reason's empire o'er the world presides, / And man from brute, and man from man divides"
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Date: 1831
"They attempt many things, sketch out plans, which, if properly filled up, might illustrate the literature of a nation, and extend the empire of the human mind, but which yet they desert as soon as begun, affording us the promise of a beautiful day, that, ere it is noon, is enveloped in darkest t...
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Date: 1831
"Terence and Virgil maintain an universal, undisputed empire over the minds of men. "
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