Date: 1712
"She next essay'd the Embryo's Rise to trace / From an unfashion'd, rude, unchannell'd Mass; / And sung how Spirits waken'd in the Brain / Exert their Force, and genial Toil maintain; / Erect the beating Heart, the Channels frame, / Unfold entangled Limbs, and kindle vital Flame."
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Date: 1712
"How Spirits, which for Sense and Motion serve, / Unguided find the perforated Nerve. / Thro' ev'ry dark Recess pursue their Flight, / Unconscious of the Road and void of Sight, / Yet certain of the End still guide their Motions right."
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Date: 1712
Atheists should "No more at Reason's solemn Bar appear, / Hardy no more Scholastic Weapons bear."
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Date: w. 1702-1713, 1989
"But most Alas by vain opinion lead / Ore the wild maze of erring passions tread."
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Date: w. 1702-1713, 1989
"By turns a thousand inclinations rise / & each by turns as impotently dies."
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Date: w. 1702-1713, 1989
"[I]f reason from the throne be gon / The madd affections bear their master on"
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Date: w. 1702-1713, 1989
"His life proves restless & his labour vain / By hurrying after Phantomes of the brain."
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Date: w. 1702-1713, 1989
"So the brave Falcon when its glorys fade / When its strong wings their generous forces shed / The vacant holds ignobler birds supply / With Ravens feathers impd she mounts on high / & weak or giddy strayes along the sky."
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Date: w. 1702, 1713
"Fair Ideas in full Glory shine, / Eternal Models of exalted Parts, / The Pride of Minds, and Conquerors of Hearts."
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Date: w. 1702, 1713
"Here forc'd Description is so strangely wrought, / It never stamps its Image on the Thought"
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