Date: 1743
"See, from her tomb, as from an humble shrine, / Truth, radiant goddess, sallies on my soul, / And puts Delusion's dusky train to flight; / Dispels the mists our sultry passions raise, / From objects low, terrestrial, and obscene."
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Date: 1743
"Why are friends ravish'd from us? 'Tis to bind, / By soft Affection's ties, on human hearts, / The thought of death, which Reason, too supine, / Or misemploy'd, so rarely fastens there."
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Date: 1743
"Is this the cause Death flies all human thought? / Or is it Judgment by the Will struck blind, / (That domineering mistress of the soul,) / Like him so strong, by Delilah the fair?"
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Date: 1743
"Passion, blind Passion, impotently pours / Tears that deserve more tears, while Reason sleeps, / Or gazes, like an idiot, unconcern'd, / Nor comprehends the meaning of the storm."
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Date: 1743
"When against Reason Riot shuts the door, / And Gaiety supplies the place of Sense, / Then foremost, at the banquet and the ball, / Death leads the dance, or stamps the deadly die."
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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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