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Date: 1751, 1791
"Passions that flatter, or that slay, / Are beasts that fawn, or birds that prey."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1752, 1791
"Know too, the joys of sense controul, / And clog the motions of the soul; / Forbid her pinions to aspire, / Damp and impair her native fire: / And sure as Sense (that tyrant!) reigns, / She holds the empress, Soul, in chains."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1752, 1791
"When Fancy's airy horse I strode, / And join'd the army on the road."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
