Date: 1788
"For me in vain is Nature drest, / While Joy's a stranger to my breast"
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Date: 1788
"Since our most wicked act / Is not our sin, and our religious awe / Delusion, if that strong Necessity / Chains up our will."
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Date: 1788
"The Mind herself, best judge of her own state, / Is feelingly convinced; nor to be moved / By subtle words, that may perplex the head, / But ne'er persuade the heart."
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Date: 1788
"Who for such perishable gaudes would put / A yoke upon his free unbroken spirit, / And gall himself with trammels and the rubs / Of this world's business; so he might stand clear / Of judgment and the tax of idleness / In that dread audit, when his mortal hours / (Which now with soft and silent ...
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Date: 1789, 1794
"In every cry of every Man / In every Infants cry of fear / In every voice; in every ban / The mind-forg'd manacles I hear."
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Date: 1789
"Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure."
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Date: 1789
"In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire [pain and pleasure]: but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while"
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Date: w. January 24, 1789
"Reason drops headlong from his sacred throne."
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Date: w. January 24, 1789
"Your dear idea reigns, and reigns alone; / Each thought intoxicated homage yields, / And riots wanton in forbidden fields."
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Date: 1789, 1800
"On his one ruling passion Sir Pope hugely labors, / That, like th'old Hebrew walking-switch, eats up its neighbours."
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