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Date: 1736
"THOU, matur'd by glad Hesperian Suns, / Tobacco, Fountain pure of limpid Truth, / That looks the very Soul; whence pouring Thought / Swarms all the Mind; absorpt is yellow Care, / And at each Puff Imagination burns."
preview | full record— Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1705-1760)
Date: October 1750, 1752, 1791
"Still pouring forth executive desire, / As bright, as brisk, and lasting, as the vestal fire."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1801
Virtue may be a man's "eternal flame" or "ruling passion"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
