Date: 1758
"If, therefore, you would be a musical and harmonious Person, whenever, in Parties of Drinking, the Soul is bedewed with Wine, suffer her not to go forth, and defile herself [like a snail]."
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Date: 1758
"But when, in Parties of Conversation, she glows by the Beams of Reason, then command her [the soul] to speak from Inspiration and utter the Oracles of Justice [like a Grasshopper]."
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Date: 1758
"In all Vice, Pleasure being presented like a Bait, draws sensual Minds to the Hook of Perdition."
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Date: w. 1821, 1840
"For Lucretius had limed the wings of his swift spirit in the dregs of the sensible world."
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Date: w. 1821, 1840
"What were virtue, love, patriotism, friendship - what were the scenery of this beautiful universe which we inhabit; what were our consolations on this side of the grave - and what were our aspirations beyond it, if poetry did not ascend to bring light and fire from those eternal regions where th...
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