Date: 1773
"Sighs are incense from a heart sincere"
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Date: 1773
"While others,--consecrate to higher aims, / Whose hallowed bosoms glow with purer flames, / Love in their heart, persuasion in their tongue,-- / With words of peace shall charm the listening throng, / Draw the dread veil that wraps the' eternal throne, / And launch our souls into the bright unkn...
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Date: 1773
The soul contains "An embryo of God, a spark of fire divine / Which must burn on for ages."
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Date: 1773
"Now deep retired in Frome's enchanting vale, / She pours her tuneful sorrows on the gale; / Without one fond reserve the world disclaims, / And gives up all her soul to heavenly flames."
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Date: 1773
The mind may be "a never dying flame"
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Date: 1791
"[I]mpetuous Passion's flame" may be blown to rage
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