Date: 1731
"'Tis true, my Favourite has betray'd me, basely; / But he was first, himself, betray'd by Love; / That Tyrant of the Heart, more King than I, / Ranks Monarchs with his Slaves."
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Date: 1731
"I will strive / To check this rising Passion; and forget / That she who charms me thus is in my Power, / Till I can bend that Pow'r, to Reason's Rule."
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Date: 1734
Love may take the heart with storm and rule there alone
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Date: 1734, 1753
"Man, the deceiver, veils his cruel art, / And skreens himself within th' attempted heart; / There, to ungen'rous empire, climbs, e'er long, / Help'd by the confidence he means to wrong."
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Date: 1743
"Where had Reason the Dominion, I should have long since expell'd the little Tyrant, who hath made such Ravage there"
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