Date: 1702
"Why hangs my Heart thus heavy / Like Death within my Bosom?"
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Date: 1702
"In Adversity / The Mind grows tough by buffeting the Tempest; / Which, in Success dissolving, sinks to Ease, / And loses all her Firmness."
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Date: 1702
"Oh, Glorious Thought! By Heav'n! I will enjoy it, / Tho' but in Fancy; Imagination shall / Make room to entertain the vast Idea."
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Date: 1702
"Stop thee there, Arpasia, / And bar my Fancy from the guilty Scene; / Let not Thought enter, lest the busie Mind / Should muster such a train of monstrous Images, / As wou'd distract me."
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Date: 1702
"Imagine somewhat exquisitly fine, / Which Fancy cannot paint, which the pleas'd Mind / Can barely know, unable to describe it."
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Date: 1702
"But see! the Sultan comes!--my beating Heart / Bounds with exulting Motion, Hope, and Fear, / Fight with alternate conquest in my Breast."
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Date: 1702
"If my wounded Mind / Could know a Thought of Peace, it would be now."
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Date: 1702
"The boiling Passion that disturbs thy Soul, / Spreads Clouds around, and make thy purpose dark."
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Date: 1702
"But that my Soul, conscious of whence it sprung, / Sits unpolluted in its sacred Temple, / And scorns to mingle with a Thought so mean."
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Date: 1702
""Reason resumes her Empire, / And I am cool again."
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