Date: January 19, 1791
"You know them but at a distance, on the statements of those who always flatter the reigning power, and who, amidst their representations of the grievances, inflame your minds against those who are oppressed. These are amongst the effects of unremitted labour, when men exhaust their attention, bu...
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Date: 1792
"Love sits triumphant on the heart--his throne! / And breaks those fetters bigots would impose, / To aggravate the sense of human woes!"
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Date: 1792
Shakespeare "placed aloft on Inspiration's throne, / Made Fancy's magic kingdom all his own, / Burst from the trammels which his muse confined, / And poured the wealth of his exhaustless mind!"
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Date: 1792 [1794]
"Your head's an auction-room of gauze and ruffles"
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Date: 1792 [1794]
"If female minds are uninform'd and blank, / Whom, lordly sirs! are female tongues to thank?"
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Date: 1792 [1794]
A wife chosen from "the coarse, what groveling brood" will be in thought "barren and in speech how rude"
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Date: 1792
"We from your judgment to your hearts appeal, / Generous as brave, you are not hearts of steel"
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Date: 1792
"That sweet enchantress ... Can give to Fancy's work a blaze more bright, / Or Reason's steady lamp feed with new light."
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Date: 1792
"Her Heart a Stranger to Disguise; / Her Mind as perfect as her Face"
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Date: 1792
"Howe'er on classic grounds they take defence; / Howe'er adroit their nostrums they dispense; / Impartially let loss and gain be tried, / And soon the balance Reason will decide."
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