Date: w. c. 1793? [in MS]
"Deceit to secresy confind / Lawful cautious & refind / To every thing but interest blind / And forges fetters for the mind."
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Date: 1793
"But, most of all, [the mind is subject] to that lov'd voice, whose thrill, / Rushing impetuous through each throbbing vein, / Dilates the wond'ring mind, and frees its pow'rs / From the cold chains of icy apathy / To all the vast extremes of bliss and pain!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1794
A fiend may set "reason up for judge / Of our most holy Mystery"
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Date: 1794
Reason once fairer than the light [has now been] fould in Knowledges dark Prison house
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Date: 1794
"I bring forth from my teeming bosom myriads of flames. / And thou dost stamp them with a signet"
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Date: 1794
" The Human Face, a Furnace seal'd / The Human Heart, its hungry Gorge."
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Date: 1794
"In every voice: in every ban, / The mind-forg'd manacles I hear."
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Date: 1794
"Forgetfulness, dumbness, necessity! / In chains of the mind locked up, / Like fetters of ice shrinking together."
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Date: 1796
"Behold the wretch, who from that cavern [a madhouse?--"Sad habitation of the lost, insane"] flies, / Hell in his heart, destruction in his eyes"
preview | full record— Merry, Robert (1755-1798)