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Date: 1733
"Swell'd with vain Learning, vainer Man conceives, / That 'tis with him the bright Minerva lives; / That she descends to dwell with him alone, / And in his Breast erects her starry Throne."
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733
Base usurpers of the soul may be gone, "and Reason long depos'd regains her Throne"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1736, 1743
"Th' identick Shape thy Fancy would retain, / Engraven in eternal Characters / While Memory holds its Empire in the Brain."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
