Date: 1701
"Nor can this right be less when national; / Reason which governs one, should govern all."
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Date: 1704
"Charity, decent, modest, easy, kind, / Softens the high, and rears the abject Mind; / Knows with just Reins, and gentle Hand to guide, / Betwixt vile Shame, and arbitrary Pride."
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Date: 1704
"As thro' the Artist's intervening Glass, / Our Eye observes the distant Planets pass; / A little we discover; but allow, / That more remains unseen, than Art can show: / So whilst our Mind it's Knowledge wou'd improve; / (It's feeble Eye intent on Things above) / High as We may, We lift our Rea...
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Date: 1704
"When gentle Reason rules thy Breast; / The Sun upon the calmest Sea / Appears not half so bright as Thee."
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Date: 1705, 1709
"Has She a Bodkin and a Card? / She'll prick her Mind."
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Date: 1705, 1709
"Let all her Ways be unconfin'd: / And clap your Padlock--on her Mind"
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Date: 1706
"Oh! where shall I begin? what language find / To heal the raging anguish of your mind?"
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Date: 1709
"What Passions in a Parent's Breast debate!"
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Date: 1709
"Thus in the Picture of our Mind / The Action may be well design'd; / Guided by Law, and bound by Duty; / Yet want this Je ne sçay quoy of Beauty."
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Date: 1709 [1708]
"Beautiful Looks are rul'd by fickle Minds; / And Summer Seas are turn'd by sudden Winds"
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