Date: w. 1766, 1797
" His youth, his comeliness, his country too, / Will stamp him very Curan in her heart"
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Date: w. 1766, 1797
"Has my moral pencil / So oft portray'd the forms of truth and falshood, / In their just lineaments, to thy mind's eye"
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Date: w. 1766, 1797
"The future whole infix upon thy mind; / Be there each line in truth ideal drawn"
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Date: w. 1746, 1797
"His youthful breast, by years mature refin'd, / May shine the mirror of thy blameless mind."
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Date: w. 1794, 1797
"'Tis only those of purer clay / 'From sensual dross refined, / 'In whom the passions pleas'd obey / 'The God within the mind, / 'Who share my delegated aid, / 'Through Wisdom's golden mean convey'd / 'From the first source of sov'reign good."
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Date: w. 1779, published 1800
"His iron-heart with Scripture he assail'd, / Woo'd him to hear a sermon, and prevail'd."
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Date: w. 1779, published 1800
"Now strike me to the ground, on which I kneel, / Ere yet this heart relapses into steel;"
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Date: 1801
"Pursue the theme, and you shall find ... after summing all the rest, / Religion ruling in the breast / A principal ingredient."
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