Date: 1717
"Bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, / The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind"
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Date: 1717
One may strive "On every Subject's Heart to seal his Love ... What Breast so hard? what Heart of human make, / But softning did the kind Impression take?"
preview | full record— Duke, Richard (1658-1711)
Date: 1717
"Some livelier Spark of Heav'n, and more refin'd / From earthly Dross, fills the great Poet's Mind."
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Date: 1720
"Ah! Wissin, had thy Art been so refin'd, / As with their Beauty to have drawn their Mind."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1722
"No Man can boast a God-like Mind, / From that Infernal Dross refin'd; / By Nature all are Base"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1724, 1787
"Sure thou wilt weep, and tender sorrows feel; / Nor flint thy heart, nor is thy breast of steel."
preview | full record— Welsted, Leonard (1688-1747)
Date: 1727, 1787
"Oak was his heart, his breast with steel / Thrice mail'd, that first the brittle keel / Committed to the murtherous deep."
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Date: 1728
Imaginary Conquests may swell the Mind
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1734
"Grant but as many sorts of mind, as Moss."
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Date: 1734
"Tis Education forms the vulgar mind: / Just as the Twig is bent, the Tree's inclin'd."
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