Date: 1742
"By Him instructed, even the meanest Prince / Shall rise to envy'd Greatness, shall advance / His dreaded Pow'r above Restraint and Fear, / And all the Rules, that in fantastick Chains / Inferior Minds confine."
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Date: 1748
"Such callous Hearts to no Impression yield, / All-guarded with Corruption's seven-fold Shield;"
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Date: 1748
"the Persian Bands / In fearful Wonder ask; What God unseen / Such Pow'r bestow'd, and steel'd a Woman's Heart"
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Date: 1748
"These be now my Cares, / To leave the Muse for Virtue [...] but chief my Soul to steel / With adamantine Honour"
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Date: 1751
"He stood; content to bow to Custom's Throne, / So Reason mote not blush his sovran Rule to own."
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Date: 1751
"And fettering on her Throne th' immortal Mind, / The Guidance of her Realm to Passions wild resign'd."
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Date: 1751
Religion shall "Shall purge their Minds from all impure Allays / Of sordid Selfishness and brutal Sense,"
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Date: 1758
"Deep in their soules ye fair impression lay, / Deep-tracd & never to be worn away."
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Date: 1758
"If at the type our dreaming soules awake, / & Hannahs strains their Just impression make"
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Date: 1760
"Whene'er he visits us with Racks of Pain, / And speeds the rapid Fever in each Vein, / Our drossy Souls the potent Fire refines,/ Till the bright Ore in polish'd Beauty shines"
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