Date: 1692
"Fancies and Notions he pursues, / Which ne'er had Being but in Thought: / Each, like the Grecian Artist, woo's / The Image He himself has wrought."
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Date: 1709
"Thus in the Picture of our Mind / The Action may be well design'd; / Guided by Law, and bound by Duty; / Yet want this Je ne sçay quoy of Beauty."
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Date: 1720
"Ah! Wissin, had thy Art been so refin'd, / As with their Beauty to have drawn their Mind."
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