Date: 1715-1720
"And yet no dire Presage so wounds my Mind, / My Mother's Death, the Ruin of my Kind, / Not Priam 's hoary Hairs defil'd with Gore, / Not all my Brothers gasping on the Shore; / As thine, Andromache!"
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Date: 1725-6
"[T]his last astonishes the Reader, and he is so intent upon it, that he has not attention to consider the absurdity in the manner of Ulysses's landing: In this moment when [Homer] perceives the mind of the Reader as it were intoxicated with these beauties, he steals Ulysses on shore, and dismiss...
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Date: 1725-6
"Each gentle mind the soft infection felt, for richest metals are most apt to melt"
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Date: 1725-6
"'Tis hard, he cries, to bring to sudden sight / Ideas that have wing'd their distant flight."
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Date: 1725-6
"Rare on the mind those images are trac'd, / Whose footsteps twenty winters have defac'd."
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Date: 1725-6
"The dotard's mind / To ev'ry sense is lost, to reason blind"
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Date: 1725-6
"The remedy for this disease of our minds, is a regular conduct, and to hold the balance even in all our affairs, that the scale be not rais'd too high or depress'd too low."
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Date: 1737
"Talk what you will of Taste, my Friend, you'll find, / Two of a Face, as soon as of a Mind."
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Date: 1738
"Still is there Room for Friends not less in Mind; / But the learn'd Elbow hates to be confin'd."
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Date: 1739
"Thy wounds upon my heart impress, / Nor [a]ught shall the loved stamp efface"
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