Date: 1715-1720
"There is [a Comparison] of great Beauty in Virgil, upon a Subject very like this, where he compares his Hero's Mind, agitated with a great Variety and quick Succession of Thoughts, to a dancing Light reflected from a Vessel of Water in Motion."
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Date: 1715-1720
"Let great Achilles, to the Gods resign'd, / To Reason yield the Empire o'er his Mind."
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Date: 1715-1720
"Vain Dreams of Conquest" may swell the haughty Mind
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Date: 1715-1720
" The haughtiest Hearts at length their Rage resign, / And Gifts can conquer ev'ry Soul but thine."
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Date: 1715
In death "all to the same Dungeon are confin'd" and "No Busie Thoughts invade the Labouring Mind"
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Date: 1715
There may be "one Spark of Pity left behind / To form the least Impression on your Mind"
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Date: 1715
"As unregarded thro' the Vaulted Skies, / The Wat'ry South in Noisy Tempest flies: / Just so the vain Expressions touch our Mind, / Nor any strong Impressions leave behind."
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Date: 1715
"When all alone she was surpriz'd to find / Such strong Impressions on her feeble Mind."
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Date: 1715-1720
"'Tis by a bare Repetition of his Name three times, which just leaves some Impression of him on the Mind of the Reader"
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Date: 1715-1720
"[H]e would place in Opposition on one side the Son's Action which began the War, and on the other the Impressions of Concern or Repentance which it must by this time have made in the Father's Mind."
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