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"Government"
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Date: 1682, 1683, 1709
"Thus, led by what delusive Fame imparts, / We think thy [Modesty's] Throne's erected in their Hearts; / But w'are deceiv'd, as all our Fathers were, / For if thou Art at all, 'tis sure thou art not there."
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1682, 1683, 1709
"I've Banish'd Her for ever from my Breast, / Banish'd the Proud Invader of my Rest, / Banish'd the Tyrant Author of my Woes, / That robb'd my Soul of all it's Sweet Repose."
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1709
Long ago Pride and Fraud "Usurpt the Empire of [man's] Mind"
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1709
"Tho' fled from Justice to evade his Sin, / Can he suppress the living Judge within?"
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1709
"Nor let the Private Spirit here oppose / With Canting Terms, and Sniv'ling thro' the Nose; / Who tho' it most reviles the Papal Sin, / Sets up a like unfailing Judge within."
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1709
"Each Sectarist in his Breast believes he there / Has all that Popes ascribe to their Unerring Chair; / And, Unappealable, can there decide / All Truth,--His own Illuminated Guide."
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1709
"Never was Man more Gene'rous, Just and Brave, / With Pleasure less seduc'd, or less his Passions Slave."
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1709
"Joy must beat high in ev'ry vein, / Pleasure thro' all thy bosom reign;"
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1709, 1810
"When I view my spacious soul, / And survey myself awhole, / And enjoy myself alone, / I'm a kingdom of my own."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"The Mind no nobler Wisdom can attain, / Than to inspect and study all the Man: / His awful Looks confess the Race Divine; / In him the Beauties of the Godhead shine: / With Majesty he fills great Reason's Throne, / The Subject World their rightful Monarch own."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
