Date: Tuesday, October 22, 1706
"Sometimes it is acted by the evil Spirit of general Vogue, and like a meer Possession 'tis hurry'd out of all manner of common Measures; to day it obeys the Course of things and submits to Causes and Consequences; to morrow it suffers Violence from the Storms and Vapours of Human Fancy, operated...
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Date: 1706
"Oh! where shall I begin? what language find / To heal the raging anguish of your mind?"
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Date: 1709
"What Passions in a Parent's Breast debate!"
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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: 1709 [1708]
"Beautiful Looks are rul'd by fickle Minds; / And Summer Seas are turn'd by sudden Winds"
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Date: 1709 [1708]
"With Wishes rais'd, with Jealousies opprest / (Alternate Tyrants of the Human Breast) / By one great Tryal He resolves to prove / The Faith of Woman, and the Force of Love."
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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: 1710, 1797
"Like the soul in the body it [paper credit] actuates all substance, yet it is itself immaterial."
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Date: 1710, 1797
"Reason, it is true, is dictator in the society of mankind; from her there ought to lie no appeal: but here we want a POPE in our philosophy, to be the infallible judge of what is, or is not reason."
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Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"Yet if we look more closely, we shall find / Most have the seeds of judgment in their mind: / Nature affords at least a glimm'ring light; / The lines, tho' touch'd but faintly, are drawn right."
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