Date: w. c. 1704, 1709
"Provided still, you moderate your Joy, / Nor in your Pleasures all your Might employ: / Let Reason's Rule your strong Desires abate, / Nor please too lavishly your gentle Mate."
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Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"With Tyranny, then Superstition join'd, / As that the body, this enslav'd the mind."
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Date: 1715-1720
"Let great Achilles, to the Gods resign'd, / To Reason yield the Empire o'er his Mind."
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Date: 1715-1720
"Homer draws him (as we have seen) soft of Speech, the natural Quality of an amorous Temper; vainly gay in War as well as Love; with a Spirit that can be surprized and recollected, that can receive Impressions of Shame or Apprehension on the one side, or of Generosity and Courage on the ot...
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Date: 1715-1720
"Let great Achilles, to the Gods resign'd, / To Reason yield the Empire o'er his Mind."
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Date: 1717, 1736
"Like Eastern Kings a lazy state they keep, / And close confin'd in their own palace sleep."
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Date: 1733, 1736
"The ruling Passion conquers reason still."
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Date: 1733-4
"And hence one Master Passion in the breast, / Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest."
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Date: 1733-4
"So, cast and mingled with his very frame, / The mind's disease, its ruling passion came: / Each vital humour which should feed the whole, / Soon flows to this, in body and in soul."
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Date: 1733-4
"Nature its mother, Habit is its nurse; / Wit, Spirit, Faculties, but make it worse; / Reason itself but gives it edge and pow'r; / As Heaven's blest beam turns vinegar more sowr; / We wretched subjects tho' to lawful sway, / In this weak queen, some fav'rite still obey."
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