Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"The wise look further, and the wise can see / The hands of Sawney actuating thee; / The clock-work of thy conscience turns about, / Just as his mandates wind thee in and out."
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Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"Did not thy iron conscience blush to write / This Tophet of the gentle arts polite?"
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Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"The groves of Kew, however misapplied / To serve the purposes of lust and pride, / Were, by the greater monarch's care, designed / A place of conversation for the mind; / Where solitude and silence should remain, / And conscience keep her sessions and arraign."
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Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"Not yet contented with his boundless sway, / Which all perforce must outwardly obey, / He thought to throw his chain upon the mind; / Nor would he leave conjecture unconfined."
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Date: 1777
"Pale-eyed Affright, his heart of silver hue, / In vain essayed her bosom to acale."
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Date: 1778
" In thee, by art, the demon stands confest, / But nature on thy soul has stamped the god."
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Date: 1778
"To melancholy thoughts awakes the soul, / And lulls the mind to contemplation's dream"
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Date: w. 1769, 1784
Religion "'Tis fancy all, distempers of the mind / As Education taught us, we're inclined."
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Date: w. 1769, 1784
"Happy (if Mortals can be) is the Man, / Who, not by Priest but Reason, rules his span:"
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Date: 1784
Cupid is "Ever gaining conquered hearts" by using Miss Hoyland's beauty as a bow
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