Date: January 13, 1796
"Come then, sweet sounds, for you alone / Can bid the tumult cease, / Restore reason to it's throne / His bosom to it's peace."
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Date: January 13, 1796
"Forbear! there is a spirit within me, sunk tho' I am in misery and despair, that will not suffer you, tho' now a conqueror in your turn, and towering far above the wretched son of Hastings, to take this base advantage of your fortune, and drag a trembling victim to the altar only to riot in the ...
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Date: 1797
A boy with the the divine gift of beauty may conquer "each heart he lists" nor needs Cupid's "shafts to aid his victories"
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Date: 1797
" For, Cupid, well thou know'st, the tender soul, / That Poesy inspires, is very wax / To Beauty's piercing ray"
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Date: 1797
"[M]ark it well, / And stamp the awful moral on your souls"
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Date: 1797
" Soft female hearts are prone as wax to melt, / And, true or false, impressions will be felt;"
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Date: 1797
"Youth's yielding clay too easily receives / The featur'd stamp that cross-ey'd cunning gives"
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Date: w. 1766, 1797
" His youth, his comeliness, his country too, / Will stamp him very Curan in her heart"
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Date: w. 1766, 1797
"Has my moral pencil / So oft portray'd the forms of truth and falshood, / In their just lineaments, to thy mind's eye"
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Date: w. 1766, 1797
"The future whole infix upon thy mind; / Be there each line in truth ideal drawn"
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