Date: 1713-1714
"Who wrote all this--Who more than this designd / All fine impressions of Celestial mind."
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Date: 1714 [1712, 1717]
"They shift the moving Toyshop of their Heart; / Where Wigs with Wigs, with Sword-knots Sword-knots strive, / Beaus banish Beaus, and Coaches Coaches drive"
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Date: 1714 [1712, 1717]
"Then gay Ideas crowd the vacant Brain, / While Peers and Dukes, and all their sweeping Train, / And Garters, Stars, and Coronets appear, / And in soft sounds, Your Grace salutes their Ear."
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Date: 1714 [1712, 1717]
"Her lively Looks a sprightly Mind disclose, / Quick as her Eyes, and as unfix'd as those."
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Date: 1714 [1712, 1717]
"Love in these Labyrinths his Slaves detains, / And mighty Hearts are held in slender Chains."
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Date: 1714 [1712, 1717]
"Just in that instant, anxious Ariel sought / The close Recesses of the Virgin's thought."
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Date: 1714 [1712, 1717]
"As on the Nosegay in her Breast reclin'd, / He watch'd th' Ideas rising in her Mind, / Sudden he view'd, in spite of all her Art, / An Earthly Lover lurking at her Heart."
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Date: 1715-1720
"Let great Achilles, to the Gods resign'd, / To Reason yield the Empire o'er his Mind."
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Date: 1715-1720
"But wasting Cares lay heavy on his Mind"
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Date: 1715-1720
"A brave Mind however blinded with Passion is sensible of Remorse as soon as the injur'd Object presents itself; and Paris never behaves himself ill in War, but when his Spirits are depress'd by the Consciousness of an Injustice."
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