Date: 1745
"His understanding 'scapes the common cloud / Of fumes arising from a boiling breast."
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Date: 1788
"On feeling hearts she [Mercy] sheds celestial dew, / And breathes her spirit o'er th' enlighten'd few; / From soul to soul the spreading influence steals, / Till every breast the soft contagion feels."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)