Date: 1810
"In his mind's eye his house and glebe he sees, / And farms and talks with farmers at his ease;"
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Date: 1810
"Years pass away--let us suppose them past, / Th' accomplish'd nymph for freedom looks at last; / All hardships over, which a school contains, / The spirit's bondage and the body's pains; / Where teachers make the heartless, trembling set / Of pupils suffer for their own regret."
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Date: 1812
"[R]eviving joy and lingering gloom" may "Alternate empire o'er [the] soul assume."
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Date: 1812
Something may reach one "of the social arts, / That soften manners, and that conquer hearts."
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Date: 1812
"On Captain Bligh her mind in balance hung-- / Though valiant, modest; and reserved, though young/ Against these merits must defects be set-- / Though poor, imprudent; and though proud, in debt"
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Date: 1812
Reason may rule us in her proper place
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Date: 1812
"Reason, through anguish, shall her throne forsake, / And strength of mind but stronger madness make."
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Date: 1814
"The mind which does not struggle against itself under one circumstance, would find objects to distract it in the other, I believe; and the influence of the place and of example may often rouse better feelings than are begun with."
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Date: 1814
"[H]er mind became cool enough to seek all the comfort that pride and self-revenge could give."
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