Date: 1816
"This was love's doing: from my constant heart / The image stampt by him can ne'er depart"
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Date: 1817
A certain sense of right and wrong may be "kneaded in a mind so young"
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Date: 1822
Reason "from her judgement-seat / Must, with a tender rigour, treat / The venial errors of the mind, / And in severity be kind"
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Date: 1823
A sublime power rules the will "And stamps His precepts on the conscious breast"
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Date: 1823
The "venom'd shafts" of Cupid "empoison mortal joy," "Drawing from heav'n the soul of man to earth, / With foul alloy debasing purest treasure."
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Date: December 27, 1823
"Now in filling my mind with them [ideas and facts], and in warming and animating me, you would, I doubt not, do me great good. And I am one of those substances, like sealing wax and other electric bodies, which require to be warmed in order to possess the faculty of attracting objects, of coveri...
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)