Date: w. 1713-1718?, 1989
"If I cant have the pleasure to conquer yr heart / I shall have some at least in complaining."
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Date: 1720, 1735
A banker's soul may be "Weigh'd in the Ballance, and found Light."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1722, 1726
"'Twas when the night in silent sable fled, / When chearful morning sprung with rising red, / When dreams and vapours leave to crowd the brain"
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Date: 1724
"And ev'ry one begins to find / The same impression on his mind."
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Date: 1726
"Here I discovered the Roguery and Ignorance of those who pretend to write Anecdotes, or secret History who send so many Kings to their Graves with a Cup of Poison; will repeat the Discourse between a Prince and Chief Minister, where no Witness was by; unlock the Thoughts and Cabinets of E...
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Date: 1726
"But the whole Scene of this Voyage made so strong an Impression on my Mind, and is so deeply fixed in my Memory, that in committing it to Paper I did not omit one material Circumstance."
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Date: 1726
"Reason alone is sufficient to govern a Rational Creature; which was therefore a Character we had no Pretence to challenge"
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Date: March 13, 1727
"Must these like empty shadows pass, / Or forms reflected from a glass? / Or mere chimeras in the mind, / That fly, and leave no marks behind?"
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Date: March 13, 1727
"And is not virtue in mankind / The nutriment that feeds the mind; / Upheld by each good action past, / And still continued by the last?"
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Date: 1727
"Old Men view best at a distance with the Eyes of their Understanding as well as with those of Nature."
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