Date: 1770
"Mean while, the duties of a man revolve, / And steel thy bosom with the firm resolve"
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Date: 1770
"Destructive eyes, false mirrors of the heart! / I, to my sorrow know the lies you've told me."
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Date: 1770
"I could not look upon his mangled corse: / I saw his mangled corse in my mind's eye."
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Date: 1775
"How like a wanton lamb that careless play'd, / The shepherd and the fold forgotten quite, / My vagrant soul, in search of vain delight, / Many long years from her true Shepherd stray'd!"
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1783
"When first the orient rays of beauty move / The conscious soul, they light the lamp of love"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1788-89
"According to Mr. Locke, the soul is a mere rasa tabula, an empty recipient, a mechanical blank."
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Date: 1788-89
"According to Plato, she [the soul] is an ever-written tablet, a plenitude of forms, a vital and intellectual energy."
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Date: 1788-89
"On the former system, she [the soul] is on a level with the most degraded natures, the receptacle of material species, and the spectator of delusion and non-entity."
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Date: 1788-89
The soul is "Like a man between sleeping and waking, her visions are turbid and confused, and the phantoms of a material night, continually glide before her drowsy eye."
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Date: 1788-89
"But on the latter system [Plato's], the soul is the connecting medium of an intelligible and sensible nature, the bright repository of all middle forms, and the vigilant eye of all cogitative reasons"
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