Date: 1706
"There glides the moon her shining way, / And shoots my heart thro' with a silver ray."
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Date: 1706, 1709
"O 'tis a Thought would melt a Rock, / And make a Heart of Iron move."
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Date: 1706, 1709
"COME let me Love: or is my Mind / Harden'd to Stone, or froze to Ice?"
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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"To Tyrannize, to play the Tyrant, or use tyrannically; to oppress, or lord it over. The Passions are Figuratively said To Tyrannize over the Soul. "
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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"Volition, (in Philos.) the Act of Willing, an Act of the Mind when it knowingly exercises that Dominion it takes to it self over any Part of the Man, by employing such a Faculty in, or withholding it from any particular Action."
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Date: 1706
Honour may reign in the breast of "Gracious Anna"
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Date: 1706
"Ah, my Life's dear Guardian, methinks now you are here, my Heart has Warmth again, and active Motion which, lately like a worn-out Clock, had none."
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Date: 1706, 1709
"But let thine Image ever dwell / Stampt as a Seal upon my Heart."
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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"To Retain, to keep, or hold back a thing once deliver'd and afterwards demanded again; to preserve such good or bad Qualities as one had formerly; to keep in Mind, or to remember."
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Date: Dated August 6, 1707; 1711
"The mind of man is at first (if you will pardon the expression) like a tabula rasa, or like wax, which, while it is soft, is capable of any impression, till time has hardened it."
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