Date: 1779, 1794
"For still its own severest judge, / The generous mind appears; / And when it errs, against itself / A dread tribunal rears."
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Date: 1779, 1794
"Upon the back of each bright heart / These words engraven were [literally], / In mystic characters; fond Love / And joy have fix'd me here."
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Date: 1781
"When love is fetter'd, all is fire, / And tender passion soon decays; / Like those sweet birds which soon expire, / When we wou'd force their tuneful lays."
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Date: 1782
"Disdainful of those little arts that bind, / In slavish trammels, the inferior mind, / No stage finesse her action shall disgrace, / To trick a generous audience out of praise; / But Truth, and Nature, shall still plead her cause, / And win the tribute of a just applause."
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Date: 1788
"Shall I trust the thoughts that rise / And struggle in my panting breast, / Tinted with a thousand dyes, / Image quick on image prest"
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Date: 1788
"I feel the swelling raptures roll / In surging tides upon my soul"
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Date: 1788
" My panting soul is all on fire"
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Date: 1788
"Seize! seize! the glowing images that pass / Like transient shadows o'er the mimic glass!"
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