Date: 1712
"What high Perfections grace the human Mind, / In Flesh imprison'd, and to Earth confin'd!"
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Date: 1712
"She [the mind] draws ten thousand Landschapes in the Brain, / Dresses of airy Forms an endless Train, / Which all her Intellectual Scenes prepare, / Enter by turns the Stage, and disappear."
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Date: 1714
"So thou, my dearest, truest, best Alicia, / Vouchsafe to lodge me in thy gentle Heart, / A Partner there; I will give up Mankind, / Forget the Transports of encreasing Passion, / And all the Pangs we feel for its Decay."
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Date: 1715
"Nature to Man's Breast has made no Windows, / To show us what they act within Doors."
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Date: 1715
"Thy Virtues flash, / They break at once on my astonish'd Soul; / As if the Curtains of the Dark were drawn, / To let in Day at Midnight."
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Date: 1718
"The World a Scene of murder'd Souls appears, / Interr'd in living Sepulchres, / And moved from Place to Place in walking Tombs."
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Date: 1718
"Vile Man becomes, when purify'd by Grace, / Thy Living Temple, and abiding Place."
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Date: 1718
" His Heart is made Thy Altar, whence / To Heav'n arise pure Flames of holy Fire"
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Date: 1722
One's "vital life" dwells in the heart
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Date: 1722
"[W]ho can tell / How each [image] awaken'd from its little cell / Starts forth, and how the soul's command it hears / And soon on fancy's theatre appears?"
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