Date: 1742
"Where heav'nly Reason with her temperate Light, / Teaches th'unbiass'd Mind to judge aright / There Property secure enjoys her own; / There Conscience sits untroubl'd on her Throne"
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Date: 1746, 1749
"Such Rancour this, of such a poisonous Vein, / As never, never, shall my Paper stain: / Much less infect my Heart"
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Date: 1746, 1749
"For the hurt Eye an instant Cure you find; Then why neglect, for Years, the sickening Mind?"
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Date: 1746, 1749
"For Peace and War succeed by Turns in Love, / And while tempestuous these Emotions roll, / And float with blind Disorder in the Soul."
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Date: 1748
The sorrowing soul is tempestuous
preview | full record— Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)
Date: 1748
The body is a "frail building falling to decay"
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Date: 1733, 1748
Memory is a "Surprising storehouse! in whose narrow womb / All things, the past, the present, and to come, / Find ample space, and large and mighty room."
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Date: 1733, 1748
"O falsely deemed the foe of sacred wit! / Thou [Memory], who the nurse and guardian art of it, / Laying it up till season due and fit."
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Date: 1733, 1748
"Where thou [Memory] art not, the cheerless human mind / Is one vast void, all darksome, sad, and blind; / No trace of anything remains behind."
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