Date: 1765
""How hideous and forlorn! when ruthless care / With cankering tooth corrodes the seeds of life, / And deaf with passion's storms when pines despair, / And howling furies rouse th'eternal strife."
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Date: 1765
"O ye pure inmates of the gentle breast, / Truth, Freedom, Love, O where is your abode?"
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Date: 1739, 1766
Sins may "erect their throne" in one's heart
preview | full record— Nicol, Alexander (bap. 1703)
Date: 1766
"Faction's torch of sulphurous gleam / Shall fire the heart that feels not Fancy's beam."
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Date: 1766
"So get these lines, and what they do evince, / By heart; and they may give you some impressions, / Both of salvation and of your transgressions;"
preview | full record— Nicol, Alexander (bap. 1703)
Date: 1766
"Curse not the king, yea, no not in thy thought, / Nor in thy closet curse the rich for ought"
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Date: 1766
"Her breast is like a cabinet of goud, / Wherein the richest jewels are bestow'd"
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Date: 1768
A mirror is "mistress of the art, / Which conquers and secures a heart"
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Date: 1768
Fable is a mirror in which an image of the mind may be presented
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Date: 1768
"The deep Philsopher who turns mankind / Quite inside outwards, and dissects the mind, / Wou'd look but whimsical and strangely out, / To grudge some Quack his treatise on the gout."
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