Date: 1775
"To account for the idea of time, it appears to me to be sufficient to attend to a few well known facts, viz. that impressions made by external objects remain a certain space of time in the mind, that this time is different according to the strength, and other circumstances of the impression, and...
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Date: 1775
"If I look upon a house, and then shut my eyes, the impression it has made upon my mind does not immediately vanish."
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Date: w. c. 1751, 1775
"With darts and flames some arm his [Love's] feeble hands, / His infant brow with regal honours crown; / Whilst vanquished Reason, bound with silken bands, / Meanly submissive, falls below his throne."
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Date: w. c. 1751, 1775
"Each fabling poet sure alike mistakes / The gentle power that reigns o'er tender hearts."
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Date: w. c. 1751, 1775
"And see, with these is holy Friendship found, / With chrystal bosom open to the sight; / Her gentle hand fhall close the recent wound, / And fill the vacant heart with calm delight."
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Date: w. c. 1749, 1775
"A solemn stillness creeps upon my soul, / And all its pow'rs in deep attention die."
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Date: 1775
"BLEST Bard! to whom the Muses, grateful, gave / That pipe which erft their deareft Spenser won, / As once they found thee, pensive and alone, / Strewing sweet flow'rs upon his hallow'd grave; / Then bad thy fancy glow with sacred fire, / And softest airs thy rural verse inspire."
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Date: 1775
"For woes on woes that anxious wretch pursue, / And on his soul fantastic terrors croud, / Who dares with eye distrustful stretch his view / Where Fate has spread her providential cloud."
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Date: 1775
"With thee among the haunted groves / The lovely sorc'ress Fancy roves, / O let me find her here!"
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Date: 1775
"Then Peace shall heal this wounded breast, / That pants to see another blest, / From selfish passion pure."
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