Date: 1700
"August and Open, as the Hero's Mind, / Be her capacious Courts design'd."
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Date: 1718
"For from most Bodies, Dick, You know,/ Some little Bits ask Leave to flow; / And, as thro' these Canals They roll, / Bring up a Sample of the Whole. / Like Footmen running before Coaches, / To tell the Inn, what Lord approaches."
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Date: 1718
"Here, Richard, how could I explain, / The various Lab'rinths of the Brain?"
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Date: 1718
"The Brain contains ten thousand Cells: / In each some active Fancy dwells; / Which always is at Work, and framing / The several Follies I was naming."
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Date: 1718
"Whilst, as my System says, the Mind / Is to these upper Rooms confin'd."
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