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Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Not so the moral species, nor the powers / Of genius and design; the ambitious mind / There sees herself: by these congenial forms / Touch'd and awaken'd, with intenser act / She bends each nerve, and meditates well-pleas'd / Her features in the mirror."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)