Date: January 1739
"In that case resemblance converts the idea into an impression, not only by means of the relation, and by transfusing the original vivacity into the related idea; but also by presenting such materials as take fire from the least spark."
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Date: January 1739
"The Duc de la Rochefoucault has very well observed, that absence destroys weak passions, but encreases strong; as the wind extinguishes a candle, but blows up a fire"
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Date: 1745
"My Brother talks for ever of the Passion, / That fires young Tancred's Breast."
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Date: 1745
Chiefly one Charm / He in his graceful Character observes: / That tho' his Passions burn with high Impatience, / And sometimes, from a noble Heat of Nature, / Are ready to fly off, yet the least Check / Of ruling Reason brings them back to Temper, / And gentle Softness."
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Date: 1745
"I bow, Lord Constable, beneath the Snow / Of many Years; yet in my Breast revives / A youthful Flame."
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Date: 1745
"Rouse thee, for Shame! and if a Spark of Virtue / Lies slumbering in thy Soul, bid it blaze forth; / Nor sink unequal to the glorious Lesson, / This Day thy Lover gave thee from his Throne."
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Date: 1745
"Forgive my Heat. / My rankled Mind, by Injuries inflam'd, / May be too prompt to take and give Offence."
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Date: 1745
"Ha! my Brain / Is all on fire! a wild Abyss of Thought!"
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