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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Date: 1748
"When in the Hall of Smoke they congress hold, / And the sage berry, sun-burnt Mocha bears, / Has clear'd their inward eye: then, smoke-enroll'd, / Their oracles break forth mysterious as of old."
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Date: 1748
"But more he search'd the mind, and roused from sleep / Those moral seeds whence we heroic actions reap."
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Date: 1748
"His soul was fair, / Bright as the children of yon azure sheen!"
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Date: 1748
"O who can speak the vigorous joys of health! / Unclogg'd the body, unobscured the mind."
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Date: 1748
"But here, instead, is foster'd every ill, / Which or distemper'd minds or bodies know."
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Date: 1748
"Let godlike reason, from her sovereign throne, / Speak the commanding word 'I will!' and it is done."
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Date: 1772
"This fable is one of the noblest in all the ancient mythology, and seems to have made a particular impression on the imagination of Milton."
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Date: 1772
"With that strong master of our frame, / The inexorable judge within / What can be done?"
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