Date: 1702
"Thus a man's Face in the Glass is properly the 'Idea' of that Face; or when we seen any single Object, the little Picture or Image form'd at the bottom of the Eye may be properly call'd the 'Idea' of the thing seen; and by a Latitude in Expression the Picture of a Man or of any thing else, may b...
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Date: 1703, 1718
"Passions Subjection to their Guide disown, / Insult their Soveraign, and subvert his Throne"
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Date: 1703, 1718
Fancy may "fickle reign in Reason's Seat, / And Thy wild Empire, Anarchy, uphold"
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Date: 1703, 1718
"Hostile Desires fierce Wars repeat"
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Date: 1703, 1718
Tyrant desires subject man to "various Servitude, and endless Change of Pain"
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Date: 1703, 1718
"Guilt's infernal Gloom, and horrid Night" may "O'erwhelm [Man's] Intellectual Sight"
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Date: 1703, 1718
"Darkness, like that in Central Caves beneath, / Like that, which spreads the lonesome Walks of Death, / Where never Ray one Inroad made, / The Rebels Mind did swift invade."
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Date: 1703, 1718
Light may fly back to Heaven and leave one's breast bereft of its "Celestial Guest"
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Date: 1703, 1718
One's breast may become "a Den of salvage Passions, left / Without a Keeper, loose and unconfin'd"
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Date: 1705
"It did the curious Instruments confound, / And all the winding Labarynths of Sound, / The charming Musick-Rooms, that entertain / The Soul high seated in her Throne the Brain."
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