Date: 1711
"These active Liquors, which Admission find / Thro' the strait Paths, and leave the coarse behind, / Swift to the inmost Rooms their Passage beat, / And crowd around the Soul's Imperial Seat."
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Date: 1711
"Obdurate, rarely in your yielding Breast, / You entertain the Beatifick Guest."
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Date: 1734
"[W]hat lawless passions, / What vain desires, what vicious turns of thought / Lurk there unheeded: Bring them forth to view, / And sacrifice the rebels to his honour."
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Date: 1734
"Too strait the mansion for th'illustrious guest."
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Date: 1744
"Why, to be good in vain, is man betray'd? / Betray'd by traitors lodged in his own breast, / By sweet complacencies from Virtue felt?"
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Date: 1744
"Or if blind Instinct (which assumes the name / Of sacred Conscience) plays the fool in man, / Why Reason made accomplice in the cheat?"
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Date: 1744
"Still unsubdued thy stubborn heart?--for there / The traitor lurks, who doubts the truth I sing."
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Date: 1744
"Reason is guiltless! Will alone rebels."
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Date: 1744
"What, in that stubborn heart if I should find / New, unexpected witnesses against thee? / Ambition, Pleasure, and the Love of Gain!"
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Date: 1744
"I'll introduce Lorenzo to himself: / Pleasure and Pride (bad masters) share our hearts."
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