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Date: 1759
"Fair Nymph! oft inward turn your mental Eye, / Your Soul reflecting can herself descry: / By Self-examination, she will find / Each Blemish, in the Features of the Mind."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1759
"Some Readers read too much, as Gluttons eat, / These Flatulence produce, and those Conceit; / If you, by reading much, would Knowledge gain, / Think, while you read, or you will read in vain."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1759
"Beware of Self-deceit, that wily cheat, / Which blinds bright Intellect with vain Conceit; / Conceit sees Nothing in its real Light, / All Things alike delude its cheated Sight."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
