Date: 1734
"Clodio, the Scorn and Wonder of our days, / Whose ruling passion was the Lust of Praise."
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Date: 1734
"And you! brave Cobham, to the latest breath, / Shall feel your ruling Passion strong in death."
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Date: 1734
"Nature feels / A strange commotion to her inmost centre; / The throne of reason shakes"
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Date: 1734
"This flesh, this circling blood, these brutal powers, / Made to obey, turn rebels to the mind, / Nor hear its laws"
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Date: 1734
Nature's meaner springs may be fir'd to impetuous ferments" and "little restless atoms rise and reign / Tyrants in sov'reign uproar, and impose / Ideas on the mind"
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Date: 1734
"If I but close my eyes, strange images / In thousand forms and thousand colours rise, / Stars, rainbows, moons, green dragons, bears and ghosts, / An endless medley rush upon the stage, / And dance and riot wild in reason's court / Above control."
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Date: 1734
"Self-Int'rest is the mighty Prince, / Who governs all without Controul, / And dastards even the very Soul"
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Date: 1733-4
"Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; / Reason's comparing balance rules the whole."
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Date: 1735, 1745
The soul "Which reasons justly, Its own Thoughts o'er-rules"
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Date: 1735, 1763
"Were high ambition still the power confess'd / That rul'd with equal sway in every breast, / Say where the glories of the sacred nine?"
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