Date: 1766, 1806
"Too fatal proof! since thou, with av'rice fraught, / Didst basely urge (ah! shun the wounding thought!) / That tender circumstance--reveal it not, / Lest torn with rage I curse my fated lot: / Lest startled Reason abdicate her reign, / And Madness revel in this heated brain."
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Date: 1770, 1806
"Nor pride nor fickleness could claim / The empire of his mind."
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Date: 1792
Sleep may be "exil'd from this tortur'd breast"
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