Date: 1760, 1850
"Yet still in fancy's painted cells / The soul-inflaming image dwells."
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Date: 1760, 1850
Friendship is "The indissoluble tie that binds, / In equal chains, two sister minds."
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Date: 1760, 1850
One may hope "to find / An easy conquest o'er a woman's mind"
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Date: 1760, 1850
"What grand ideas crowd my brain! / What images! a lofty train / In beauteous order spring"
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Date: 1760, 1850
An "anxious tender air / Proves o'er her heart the conquest won"
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Date: 1760, 1850
"Say, youth, and can'st thou keep secure / Thy heart from conquering beauty's power?"
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Date: w. c. 1762, 1850
"For love, I fear, corrupts the judge within."
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Date: 1765
"Or, greatly daring in his Country's cause, / Whose heaven-taught soul the aweful plan design'd, / Whence Power stood trembling at the voice of Laws, / Whence soar'd on Freedom's wing th'ethereal mind."
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Date: 1765
"Warm in the raptures of divine desire, / Burst the soft chain that curbs th'aspiring mind."
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Date: 1765
"Let those, whose arts to fatal paths betray, / The soul with passion's gloom tempestuous blind, / And snatch from Reason's ken th'auspicious ray / Truth darts from Heaven to guide th'exploring mind."
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