Date: 1712
"Love taught my Tears in sadder Notes to flow, / And tun'd my Heart to Elegies of Woe."
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Date: 1712
"The fair Sicilians now thy Soul inflame; / Why was I born, ye Gods, a Lesbian Dame?"
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Date: w. 1703, 1712
"The clear, reflecting Mind, presents his Sin / In frightful Views, and makes it Day within."
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Date: w. 1703, 1712
"And all the Furies wake within their Breast."
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Date: w. 1703, 1712
"Returning Thoughts in endless Circles roll, / And thousand Furies haunt his guilty Soul."
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Date: 1713
When music plays, "Intestine war no more our Passions wage, / And giddy Factions hear away their rage."
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Date: w. 1702-1713, 1989
"But most Alas by vain opinion lead / Ore the wild maze of erring passions tread."
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Date: w. 1702-1713, 1989
"By turns a thousand inclinations rise / & each by turns as impotently dies."
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Date: w. 1702-1713, 1989
"[I]f reason from the throne be gon / The madd affections bear their master on"
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