Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"From the wise be far / Such gross unhallow'd pride; nor needs my song / Descend so low; but rather now unfold, / If human thought could reach, or words unfold, / By what mysterious fabric of the mind, / The deep-felt joys and harmony of sound / Result from airy motion; and from shape / The lovel...
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Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Men learn to judge of beauty, and acquire / Those forms set up, as idols in the soul / For love and zealous praise."
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Date: 1746
"Deep to the root / Of vegetation parch'd, the cleaving fields / And slippery lawn an arid hue disclose, / Blast Fancy's bloom, and wither e'en the soul."
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Date: 1746
"For lofty sense, / Creative fancy, and inspection keen / Through the deep windings of the human heart, / Is not wild Shakespeare thine and Nature's boast?"
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Date: 1748
"His soul was fair, / Bright as the children of yon azure sheen!"
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Date: 1748
"O who can speak the vigorous joys of health! / Unclogg'd the body, unobscured the mind."
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Date: 1748
"Let godlike reason, from her sovereign throne, / Speak the commanding word 'I will!' and it is done."
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