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Date: 1710
"But thy unerring Hands, with matchless Art / Have shewn my Eyes th'Impression in my Heart;"
preview | full record— Congreve, William (1670-1729)
Date: w. before 1717? (first published 1989)
"But he who servily can wish or grieve / For that which is not in his powr to give / Casts off the firmness wch shoud make him great / the strongest shield we can oppose to fate / letts inclinations grow & thus he weaves / Those very bonds which keep us passions slaves."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1718, 1747
"A piece of sculpture admirably wrought is put out to view, but, to preserve it against the injuries of the weather, or for some other reason, is varnished over. Every body extols the artist, and is pleased with his work; and yet no one sees that which was the immediate subject of his art, being ...
preview | full record— Grove, Henry (1684-1738)
