Date: 1714
In the afterlife, "each Soul must drink long Draughts / Of those forgetful Streams."
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Date: 1714
The Soul returns "Naked from off this Beach and perfect Blank, / To visit the New World"
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Date: 1714
"For if vast Thoughts shou'd play about a Mind / Inclos'd in Flesh, and dregging cumbrous Life, / Fluttering and beating in the mournful Cage, / It soon wou'd break its Grates and wing away."
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Date: 1714
The Soul returns "Naked from off this Beach and perfect Blank, / To visit the New World."
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Date: 1714
"Storms of neighbouring Atoms tear the Soul"
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Date: 1714
"Reason is now no more; that narrow Lamp / (Which with its sickly Fires wou'd shoot its Beams / To Distances unknown, and stretch its Rays / Ascance my Paths, in deepest darkness veil'd) / Is sunk into its Socket"
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Date: 1715
"When all alone she was surpriz'd to find / Such strong Impressions on her feeble Mind."
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Date: 1715
"Musick's the Spring made by Divinest Art, / To move the Vital Machine of Man's Heart, / And circulate with Pow'r thro' ev'ry Part."
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Date: 1717
Horror may invade the mind
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Date: 1717
One may strive "On every Subject's Heart to seal his Love ... What Breast so hard? what Heart of human make, / But softning did the kind Impression take?"
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