Date: 1770
"But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. / As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, / Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, / Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, / Eternal sunshine settles on its head."
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Date: 1770
"Imagination fondly stoops to trace / The parlour splendours of that festive place."
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Date: September, 1770
"The feelings and passions of the character which he represents, must take full possession as it were of the antichamber of his mind, while his own character remains in the innermost recess."
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Date: September, 1770
"But during the time of his pleading, the genuine colour of his mind is laid over with a temporary glaring varnish, which flies off instantaneously when he has finished his harangue."
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Date: September, 1770
"This double feeling is of various kinds and various degrees; some minds receiving a colour from the objects around them, like the effects of the sun beams playing thro' a prism; and others, like the cameleon, having no colours of their own, take just the colours of what chances to be nearest them."
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Date: 1771
"Roused from the sleep of death, a countless crowd / ("Whose hearts like trees before the wind are bow'd ... ) / Press to the hallow'd courts, with eager strife, / Catch the convincing word, and hear for life"
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Date: w. 1772
"The herald spake; the grace appear'd, / And stamp'd salvation on her heart."
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Date: 1772
"Long I every means have tried / To subdue the inbred ill; / Still I am not sanctified, / Rules my ruling passion still."
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Date: 1772
"Thou only canst my soul prepare, / And stamp me with Thy character"
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Date: 1772
"Father, Son, and Spirit enter, / Seal my soul for ever Thine!"
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