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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Date: 1716
"Led on by Reason, that blind Guide o'th'Mind. / Thro Labyrinths of Thought, and envious Ways, / It will conduct you to the fatal Place, / And leave you there."
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Date: 1716
"O then, from such Idolatry refrain, To worship the Chimeras of your Brain."
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Date: 1716
"As by Rebellion Subjects oft become / Lords of their Monarch, and pronounce his Doom: / So Reason, to your wicked Nature join'd, / Rebels 'gainst Faith, whose Slave it was design'd."
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Date: 1731
"Say to what friendly Aid we owe / Those Gleams that in the Mind's fair Mirror play."
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Date: 1731
"From what rich Fountain flow / Those ripened Beams of intellectual Day"?
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Date: 1731
"By whose fair Pencil is each Image wrought / That teems to Birth, and glitters into Thought"?
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Date: 1731
Say "How Fancy ev'ry Shape puts on, / How kindling Sparks her Form compose, / And whence that ever shining Train / That Memory or Experience shows."
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