Date: 1793
"But wicked man! what does he, carnal wretch, / With all his horse-like passions on full stretch?"
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Date: 1794
"PETER taketh a Survey of the Furniture of their Heads."
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Date: 1794
"Bid your minds then sit calmly on their thrones, amidst the hurly burly of critical attacks."
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Date: 1795
"Still to be serious, Pitt, before we part: / Let Mercy melt the mill-stone of thy heart."
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Date: 1799
"A head of wax should never court the sun."
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Date: December 18, 1802
"Then Addington, thy rigour quit, / Nor boast the iron heart of P---;"
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Date: 1802
"Paint courts, whose sorceries, too seducing bind, / In chains, in shameful slavish chains, the mind; / Courts, where unblushing Flatt'ry finds the way, / And casts a cloud o'er Truth's eternal ray."
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Date: 1804
"The daring imp has learn'd to stand his ground; / Well steel'd his heart, and bronz'd his face"
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Date: 1804, 1816
"Of ink has for ever a flood, / To blacken a bosom of snow!"
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Date: 1806
One may possess a great deal of spirit and "sterling merit"
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