Date: 1757, 1769
"The king of men to sudden rage resign'd, / At once, the empire of his mighty mind."
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Date: 1757, 1769
"Banish the dire impression from my breast. / For still I see the monster, as he stood."
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Date: 1757, 1769
"As thus to touch his iron heart they try'd, / The Cyclops smiling, scornful thus reply'd:"
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Date: 1769
"But conscious that a mind by virtue steel'd, / To no impression of distress will yield."
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