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Date: 1724
"When all at once / A thousand anxious Thoughts that slept by Day, / Swarm'd in my Brain, 'till it resembled Hell, / Hot, dark and hot: my sick Imagination, / Assisted by the Shades of Night, would give / A gloomy turn to each Idea there."
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1724
"I cannot speak the rest--the Thought is Hell-- / How my Brain glows! now Reason keep thy Seat."
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
