Date: 1762
"His Spirit send into our hearts, / Engraving on our inward parts / The living law of holiest love"
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Date: 1762, 1868
"Hasten, Lord, the day of rest / From this indwelling sin, / Vindicate Thy church oppress'd, / And still enslaved within; / Burst our bonds, and let us go / From every thought of evil freed, / Pure in heart, and saints below, / And like our sinless Head."
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Date: 1766
Melancholy may "round [one's] heart erect [her] ebon throne"
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Date: 1766
"Sweet friendship in the heart confirms her throne"
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Date: 1772
"Long I every means have tried / To subdue the inbred ill; / Still I am not sanctified, / Rules my ruling passion still."
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Date: 1788
"Heav'n heaves the heart, and reason rules the head."
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Date: 1788
"But if rebellion vex each vital part, / The head made dark by demons in the heart, / The will runs riot, while the passions rule, / The soul a slave, and reason quite a tool"
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Date: 1788
"The soul [is] a slave, and reason quite a tool."
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Date: 1788
"When reason governs, as her Maker meant, / Each subject passion feels its proper bent."
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Date: 1789, 1792
"The tops of these scarce veil'd the roots of those; / A winding court where wandering fancy walk'd / And to herself responsive Echo talk'd."
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