Date: 1774
"The attraction of the magnet is only exerted upon similar particles; and to taste the beauties of Homer it is requisite to partake his fire: but every one can relish the author who represents common life, because every one can refer to the originals from whence his ideas were taken"
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Date: 1781
"The peculiar design of this publication is, to impress devotional feelings as early as possible on the infant mind; fully convinced as the author is, that they cannot be impressed too soon, and that a child, to feel the full force of the idea of God, ought never to remember the time when he had ...
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Date: 1781
"The mother loveth her little child; she bringeth it up on her knees; she nourisheth its body with food; she feedeth its mind with knowledge."
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Date: 1791
"Each vice, to minds depraved by bondage known, / With sure contagion fastens on his own."
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Date: 1791
"[I]mpetuous Passion's flame" may be blown to rage
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Date: 1791
"The whirlwind wakes of uncontrouled desire"
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Date: 1791
The "buds of Virtue" may be blasted as they blow
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Date: 1791
Corruption may sicken the heart
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Date: 1797
"Light of the world, whose cheering ray / Illumes the realms of mind"
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Date: 1797
In William Collins's "endeavours to embody the fleeting forms of mind, and clothe them with correspondent imagery, he is not infrequently obscure."
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