Date: 1746
"Of all the frenzy that enslaves the mind, / Ambition--thus to rule--is sure the worst."
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Date: 1746
"Of all the passions--that the mind enslave, / Tarnish the glory of the truly brave, / The meanest this--of social love the pest, / The worst of Fiends--in fairest colors drest."
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Date: 1746
"Whirl'd by the swift rotations of the mind," man may be ruled by his pride and live to present bliss
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Date: 1746
Passions may rule the breast so that one "prevails and lords it o'er the rest"
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Date: 1746
"As love no single part of empire knows," "So shou'd our passions" extend "their full joy" to all desert
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Date: 1746
"Of all the passions--that the mind enslave,/ Tarnish the glory of the truly brave,/ The meanest this--of social love the pest, / The worst of Fiends--in fairest colours drest."
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Date: 1747
"Old Gripus ne'er was known to be devout, / Till Satan found his ruling passion out"
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