Date: 1755
"Thoughts come crouding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject."
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Date: 1755
"Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars / To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, / Is reason to the soul."
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Date: 1755
"Blind as the Cyclops, and blind as he, / They own'd a lawless savage liberty, / Like that our painted ancestors so priz'd, / Ere empire's arts their breasts had civiliz'd."
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