Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Vehement and swift / As lightening fires the aromatic shade / In Æthiopian fields, the stripling felt / Her inspiration catch his fervid soul, / And starting from his languor thus exclaim'd."
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Date: 1746
"Or by the vocal Woods and Waters lull'd, / And lost in lonely Musing, in the Dream, / Confus'd, of careless Solitude, where mix / Ten thousand wandering Images of Things; / Soothe every Gust of Passion into Peace; / All but the Swellings of the soften'd Heart, / That waken, not disturb, the tran...
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Date: 1748
"What, what is virtue, but repose of mind, / A pure ethereal calm, that knows no storm?"
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Date: 1748
"Ten thousand great ideas fill'd his mind; / But with the clouds they fled, and left no trace behind."
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