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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Date: 1772
"The poetry of them is often extremely noble; and the mysterious air which prevails in them, together with its delightful impression upon the mind, cannot be better expressed than in that remarkable description with which they inspired the German editor Eschenbach."
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Date: 1777
"Not like a cloyster'd drone, to read and doze, / In undeserving, undeserv'd repose; / But reason's influence to diffuse; to clear / The enlighten'd world of every gloomy fear; / Dispel the mists of error, and unbind / Those pedant chains that clog the freeborn mind."
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