Date: 1751
Religion shall "Shall purge their Minds from all impure Allays / Of sordid Selfishness and brutal Sense,"
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Date: 1758
"Deep in their soules ye fair impression lay, / Deep-tracd & never to be worn away."
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Date: 1758
"If at the type our dreaming soules awake, / & Hannahs strains their Just impression make"
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Date: 1760
"Whene'er he visits us with Racks of Pain, / And speeds the rapid Fever in each Vein, / Our drossy Souls the potent Fire refines,/ Till the bright Ore in polish'd Beauty shines"
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Date: 1760
"Dim burns the Lamp of Life; this Breast heaves slow; / My Soul shall soon the last sad Journey go."
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Date: w. May, 1756; 1761
"For these, if I forget my patron's praise, / While bright ideas dance upon my mind, / Ne'er may these eyes behold auspicious days, / May friends prove faithless, and the Muse unkind."
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Date: 1763
"With firm resolves my steady bosom steel, / Bravely to suffer, tho' I deeply feel."
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Date: 1763
"A far-stretch'd mirror spreads: its Bosom shews / Th'inverted prospect, circled in with hills / And cliffs, a Theatre immense!"
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Date: 1763
"True Virtue means, let Reason use her eyes,Nothing with Fools, and Int'rest with the Wise."
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Date: 1763
"Explore the dark recesses of the mind, / In the Soul's honest volume read mankind, / And own, in wise and simple, great and small, / The same grand leading Principle in All."
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