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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Date: 1702-1713, 1989
"The tyrant passions tread fair meritt down / & their proud thrones erect above the crown"
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Date: w. 1702-1713
"Loos'd from ye chains of flesh his freer mind / Rose up to sacred love, / To perfect saint or seraphim refin'd, / Quitting his lump of clay, / As subtle spirits fume away / Loos'd from their earth they upward mount, they flye, / They light, they shine, & blaze along the skye."
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Date: 1714
"[F]oul Reproches ignominious Stain, / Sate deep engraven in his fearfull Heart,"
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Nestor Ironside
Date: 1714
"What iron Breast so hard that can endure / To work such Spight on Vertuous Innocence?"
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Date: 1713-1714
"Who wrote all this--Who more than this designd / All fine impressions of Celestial mind."
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Date: 1714
In the afterlife, "each Soul must drink long Draughts / Of those forgetful Streams."
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