Date: 1820
"Branched thoughts" or "dark-cluster'd trees" may be new grown in some untrodden region of the mind
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Date: 1820
"Then let winged Fancy wander / Through the thought still spread beyond her:"
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Date: 1820
"With all the gardener Fancy e'er could feign, / Who breeding flowers, will never breed the same"
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Date: 1820
"Fancy, high-commission'd:--send her! / She has vassals to attend her."
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Date: 1820
"Break the mesh /Of the Fancy's silken leash; / Quickly break her prison-string."
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Date: 1820
"A rosy sanctuary will I dress / With the wreath'd trellis of a working brain"
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Date: 1820
"And they [Stewart, Tracy, Cabanis] ask why may not the mode of action called thought, have been given to a material organ of peculiar structure, as that of magnetism is to the needle, or of elasticity to the spring by a particular manipulation of the steel."
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Date: 1820
"When I meet with a proposition beyond finite comprehension, I abandon it as I do a weight which human strength cannot lift, and I think ignorance, in these cases, is truly the softest pillow on which I can lay my head."
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Date: August 16, 1820
"And is not this extraordina[r]y talk for the writer of Endymion? whose mind was like a pack of scattered cards--I am pick'd up and sorted to a pip."
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Date: August 16, 1820
"My Imagination is a Monastery and I am its Monk--you must explain my metapcs to yourself."
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