Date: 1760, 1850
"Yet still in fancy's painted cells / The soul-inflaming image dwells."
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Date: 1765
"O ye pure inmates of the gentle breast, / Truth, Freedom, Love, O where is your abode?"
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1771, 1776
"Fain to implore the aid of Flattery's screen, / Even from thyself thy loathsome heart to hide, / (The mansion then no more of joy serene), / Where fear, distrust, malevolence, abide, / And impotent desire, and disappointed pride?"
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)