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Date: 1759
"Your Memory, and Understanding too / Will still acquire new Strength, by reading slow. / The Traveller, who o'er the Country flies, / Few rural Beauties, with Discernment, spies; / Objects, that pass so swift, confound the Mind, / And no distinct Impression leave behind."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1759
"Precepts in Verse, to measure still confin'd, / Can make more deep Impression, in the Mind."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1759
"Ah! never at immodest Plays appear; / A wanton Farce, and a lascivious Play, / The Seeds of Vice insensibly convey; / There Virgin Innocence is first betray'd / By bad Impressions, on the Fancy made."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
