Date: 1698
"For Slanders vile, and lying Stories / Lodg'd in its choice Repositories, / Whilst all their Doors were shut and barr'd / 'Gainst Worth and Merit very hard"
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Date: 1698
"His Reason which of Right should Reign / The lawfull Monarch of his Brain, / Was by his Will depos'd, whose Rule / Despotick was as Great Mogul, / Would not be bound in any Case / By any Reasonable Laws, / Nor other Magna Charta own, / Than what I please, That shall be done."
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Date: 1703-4
"All therefore that [Jesus] cou'd take from his Mother, must be the Weaknesses, not the Faults of Humanity, not proceeding from her like a rasa tabula, with no Impressions at all, but indifferent to good and evil"
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Date: 1704
"Words drop like Hony from his Lips, his Mind / Is wav'ring and unconstant, as the Wind."
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Date: 1704
"His Thoughts were undisguis'd, and unconfin'd, / As naked as his Body was his Mind.
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Date: 1704
"From thence the Taylor and the Parson join'd, / To cloath his naked Body and his Mind; / The Taylor only form'd the outward Sign, / To shew what sort of Creature liv'd within; / The Priest amaz'd him in his Mystick School, / Turn'd his Head round, and made him Knave and Fool."
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Date: 1706, 1715 [1706-1721]
"At the sight of this object I am not my own master: my soul is disturbed and rebels, and I fancy it has a mind to leave me!"
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Date: 1706, 1715 [1706-1721]
"Call in then your wandering reason, and put yourself in a condition to appear before her as good breeding requires."
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