Date: 1720
"Parthenia's breast is steel'd with real scorn"
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Date: 1720
"His Fancy still awake; the roving Guest / Usurps the Throne of Reason in his Breast: / Forms great Ideas, and religious Schemes, / A busy mime, and floats in golden Dreams."
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Date: 1720
"For wary Clerks learn all these Arts / To gain Esteem, and conquer Hearts."
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Date: 1723
"How does this Tyrant lord it in thy Mind? / What Symptoms of his Empire do'st thou find?"
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Date: 1723
"For, trust me, Love (that Inmate of the Mind) / Is very much mistaken by Mankind / For which too often is misunderstood / The sudden Rage and Madness of the Blood."
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Date: 1723
"Does thy Soul sicken, while thy Body's sound?"
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Date: 1723
"Does in thy Thought some blooming Beauty reign, / Whose strong Idea mingles Joy with Pain?"
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Date: 1713, 1729
Bacchus may calm a stormy soul and "place ... Reason in its Throne again"
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Date: 1729
"In my mind's Eye, I still enjoy thee here; / Still hold thee in my Heart, and in my Ear."
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Date: 1733
"And happy He, that with prevailing Art / Could gain a Conquest o'er her Virgin Heart"
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