Date: 1775
"Of vulgar minds why nature shuns the praise, / And why to yours her every charm displays; / Whether the happy strokes of beauty shine / On fancy's mirror, or in HOGARTH's line; / Whether to habit, mode, or place confin'd, / Or fixt a general truth in every mind; / Discussions these will wing our...
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Date: 1777
"Courage, the warrior's bosom steel'd."
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Date: 1777, 1793
"Light sits my bosom's Master on his throne; / Airy and disencumber'd feels my Soul."
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Date: 1777, 1793
"A prisoner in--Impossible!--I sleep: / 'Tis fancy's coinage; 'tis a dream's delusion."
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Date: 1777, 1793
"Twas but a coinage vain / Of the distemper'd fancy! Gone, 'tis gone,"
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Date: 1777, 1793
"Your gentle hearts / To kind impressions yet susceptible, / Will amiably hear a friend's advice"
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Date: 1777, 1793
"Of one, who, warm with human passions, soft / To tenderest impressions, frequent rush'd / Precipitate into the tangling maze"
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Date: 1777, 1793
"And what a crowd of wild ideas press / Distracting on the soul!"
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Date: 1777, 1793
"Hail, sacred solitude! These are thy works, / True source of good supreme! Thy blest effects /Already on my mind's delighted eye / Open beneficent"
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Date: w. c. 1779
"[T]hen prudence took her Seat / Within the Soul, and reign'd in Virtue's room."
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