Date: 1698
"His Memory had Mansions many, / And some as fair and large as any; /But still the fairest and the best / Were took up by th'foulest Guest."
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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: 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: 1707
"Let others on the Senses Surface play, / And purchase fleeting Honours of a Day; / Your Empire's lasting, for the Mind's your Throne, / And ev'ry Hour you gain upon Renown."
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Date: 1716
"You think, perhaps, his dull Capacity, / In flight of Reason, cannot soar so high, / As to confirm him in his Sophistry."
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