Date: 1734
"And you! brave Cobham, to the latest breath, / Shall feel your ruling Passion strong in death."
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Date: 1733-4
"Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; / Reason's comparing balance rules the whole."
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Date: 1735, 1736
"In Men, we various Ruling Passions find, / In Women, two almost divide the kind; / Those, only fix'd, they first or last obey, / The Love of Pleasure, and the Love of Sway."
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Date: 1737
"With Terrors round can Reason hold her throne / Despise the known, nor tremble at th'unknown?"
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Date: 1743
Dullness "rul'd, in native Anarchy, the mind"
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Date: 1743
"The native Anarchy of the mind is that state which precedes the time of Reason's assuming the rule of the Passions"
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Date: 1743
Dullness in the "absence of Reason," tho' she cannot regulate the Passions like Reason, yet blunts and deadens their Vigour, and, indeed, produces some of the good effects"
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