Date: 1735
"Impenetrable Courage steels his manly Breast"
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Date: 1735
"Hope may some boundless Future Bliss embrace, / But What, or When, or How, or Where, / Are Mazes all, which Fancy runs in vain"
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Date: 1735
"Nor can the narrow Cells of human Brain / The vast immeasurable Thought contain"
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Date: 1735
"As if thy thrifty Soul foreknew, / Like a wise Envoy, Heav'n's Intent / Soon to recall whom it had sent, / And all its Task resolv'd at once to do."
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Date: 1735
"Her lovely Mind shines chearful thro' her Face, / A sacred Lamp in a fair Crystal Case."
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Date: 1735
"Affection is the Chain of grateful Minds."
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Date: 1756
"I ask not Her heart, but would conquer my own"
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Date: 1756
"O take me! stamp me on thy breast! / Deep let the image be imprest!"
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Date: 1772
"This fable is one of the noblest in all the ancient mythology, and seems to have made a particular impression on the imagination of Milton."
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