Date: 1782
One may "give an image all thine heart" but "Its empire is not hers, nor is it thine, / 'Tis God's just claim, prerogative divine"
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Date: 1782
The soul may be "emancipated" and "unoppress'd"
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Date: 1782
"The mind attains beneath her [Freedom's] happy reign / The growth that nature meant she should attain."
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Date: 1782
"But what is man in his own proud esteem? / Hear him, himself the poet and the theme: / A monarch clothed with majesty and awe, / His mind his kingdom, and his will his law, / Grace in his mien and glory in his eyes, / Supreme on Earth and worthy of the skies, / Strength in his heart, dominion in...
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Date: 1786
The soul controls "the state, the splendour and the throne, / An intellectual kingdom, all her own"
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Date: 1801
"Pursue the theme, and you shall find ... after summing all the rest, / Religion ruling in the breast / A principal ingredient."
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