Date: 1764
Brave rage, a "grand master passion," may flame out for country
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Date: 1764
Philosophy may overturn Reason's throne and strive "proudly in its place to plant her own"
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Date: 1764
Philosophy may be undermined, her empire thrown down, "By means of sense, from whom she holds the crown"
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Date: 1764
"Like such a garden, when the human soul, / Uncultured, wild, impatient of control, / Brings forth those passions of luxuriant race, /Which spread, and stifle every herb of grace
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Date: 1764
Virtue may wither on the bed she was born until Philosophy steps in and "clears the encumbered land" and "roots up every weed"
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Date: 1764
"When she with apathy the breast would steel, / And teach us, deeply feeling, not to feel"
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Date: 1767
"For oh the time will come, when you shall feel / Stabs in your heart more sharp than stabs of steel"
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Date: 1767
"A Mind is a balance for thousands a year."
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Date: 1767, 1784
"Think not my breast is steel'd against the claims / Of sweet humanity."
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Date: 1767, 1784
"But plant some gentler passion in its room, / Some virtuous instinct suited to your make, / As glory is to ours, alike required / A ransom for the vulgar's vassal state, / Then wou'dst thou soon the strong contention own, / And justify my conduct."
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