Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"Tutors, like Virtuoso's, oft inclin'd / By strange transfusion to improve the mind, / Draw off the sense we have, to pour in new; / Which yet with all their skill, they ne'er could do."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"For as in Bodies, thus in Souls, we find / What wants in Blood and Spirits, swell'd with Wind: / Pride, where Wit fails, steps in to our Defence, / And fills up all the mighty Void of Sense!"
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Date: 1794
"No--long they lived great nature to explore, / Their minds enriching with poetic store."
preview | full record— Pointon, Priscilla [AKA Priscilla Pickering] (c. 1740-1801)