Date: 1722, 1726
"'Twas when the night in silent sable fled, / When chearful morning sprung with rising red, / When dreams and vapours leave to crowd the brain"
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Date: 1733
"I nod in Company, I wake at Night, / Fools rush into my Head, and so I write."
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Date: 1733-4
"Love, hope, and joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, / Hate, fear, and grief, the family of pain, / These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd, / Make, and maintain, the balance of the mind."
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Date: 1733-4
"Passions, tho' selfish, if their means be fair, / List under Reason, and deserve her care"
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Date: 1737
"My Mind resumes the thread it dropt before; / Thoughts, which at Hyde-Park-Corner I forgot, / Meet and rejoin me, in my pensive Grott. "
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