Date: 1759
"Support our virtue:--kindle in our souls / A ray of your divine enthusiasm; / Such as inflames the patriot's breast, and lifts / Th'impassion'd mind to that sublime of virtue, / That even on the rack it feels the good, / Which in a single hour it works for millions, / And leaves the legacy to af...
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Date: 1759
"Rather say / That strong imagination burns within thee."
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Date: 1759
"By heaven that thought / lifts up my kindling soul / With renovated fire."
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Date: 1759
"Oh! this dire whirl of thought--my brain's on fire."
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Date: 1760, 1803
"To farther conquests still my soul aspires, / And all my bosom glows with martial fires"
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Date: 1761
"No, thou art all that's elegant and fair, / And perfect upon earth; and Caius happy / Beyond whatever gratitude express'd, / Or fancy drew, when glowing raptures catch / The poet's breast, and set the soul on fire."
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Date: 1761
"Why must I only answer thee with sighs? / What is it hangs thus heavy on my heart, / And weighs it down, when it should spring with joy? / Alas! 'tis conscience; 'tis the pride of honour; / 'Tis the severe condition of my fate, / Which makes it ruin to be lov'd by Tullia, / And warns me to suppr...
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Date: 1761
"But now Adversity's refining fire / Melts down the base alloy of earthly passions, / And purifies the temper of the heart."
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Date: 1761
"Let not the memory of my wrongs extinguish / That spark divine, which animates the soul, / And lights the path of glory."
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