Date: 1790
"A contented mind is a continual feast."
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Date: 1790
"Her sickly mind / Was ill at ease, though seated on the throne / of affluence and plenty."
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Date: 1790
"With a soldier's care / He plan'd the conquest of Ophelia's heart/ and won it"
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Date: 1790
"Is there a man whose iron heart is proof / Against such charms?"
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Date: 1790
'While we converse together, and I feel / 'Secret correction from the bolt of truth / 'Shot home, my better soul in triumph rides, / Borne on the wings of reason to her throne."
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Date: 1790
One may have two souls "which, like two mighty Kings, / 'Ever contending for the sov'reignty, / 'Stir up sedition and revolt within"
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Date: 1790
A better soul "by revolution strange" may come to sit on her throne
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Date: 1790
"O lovely queen, / Beauty usurps the empire of my heart, / All its affections."
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Date: 1790
"[M]y conquer'd heart / 'Has nothing noble or aspiring in it"
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Date: 1790
"'Who foils a Persian? Are they not all flint, / 'All steel and iron to the very heart?"
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