Date: 1726
"Now, th'Eternal Scheme, / That Dark Perplexity, that Mystic Maze, / Which Sight cou'd never trace, nor Heart conceive, / To Reason's Eye, refin'd, clears up apace."
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Date: 1726, 1753
"Heedless of fortune then look down on state, / Balanced within by reason's conscious weight"
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Date: 1726, 1753
"Divinely proud of independent will, / Prince of your passions, live their sovereign still."
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Date: 1727
"E'en Light itself, which every thing displays, / Shone undiscover'd, till [Newton's] brighter mind / Untwisted all the shining robe of day."
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Date: 1727
"Death's cold Hand arrests the Fears / That haunt the Coward's Mind"
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Date: 1727
"[T]umultuous Whims to Faction prone" may justle "Monarch Reason from her Throne"
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Date: 1727
A "little Loves" empire over swains' Hearts may be frail until Miranda crowns the Triumphs
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Date: 1727
"Death from this coarse Alloy refines the Mind."
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Date: 1727
"Ned cou'd not well digest this Change, / Forc'd in the World at large to range; / With Babel's Monarch turn'd to grass, / Wou'd it not break an Heart of Brass?"
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Date: 1727
"Numps was rough, / No Heart of Oak was half so tough, / And true as Steel"
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