Date: 1712
"For as th'Almighty's Throne is fix'd on high, / (Far from these lower Spheres, and arched Sky) / Where Seraphs, and Cherubic Orders stand, / Attend the Nod, and wait the blest Command; / Then with Angelic Motion swift obey, / And instantly / themselves to farthest Worlds con...
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Date: 1712
"And as the Sun by his own Heat exhales / Clouds from the Sea, and Fogs from marshy Vales; / Which (tho' base-born) ambitious higher move, / Prevent the Light, and hide the Worlds above. / So from corporeal Dregs the Mists condense, / And intercept the Messengers of Sense."
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Date: 1712
"Hence the clog'd Spirits their Confinement mourn, / And Reason waits in vain the swift Return."
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Date: w. 1703, 1712
"And all the Furies wake within their Breast."
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Date: w. 1703, 1712
"Returning Thoughts in endless Circles roll, / And thousand Furies haunt his guilty Soul."
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Date: 1714, 1735
" What cruel Dæmon haunts my tortur'd Mind? / Sure, if 'twere Love, I shou'd th'Invader find;"
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Date: 1715-1720
"Yet should the Fears that wary Mind suggests / Spread their cold Poison thro' our Soldier's Breasts, / My Javelin can revenge so base a Part, / And free the Soul that quivers in thy Heart."
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Date: 1715-1720
"Hector's Mind fluctuates every way, he is calling a Council in his own Breast, and consulting what Method to pursue."
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Date: 1715-1720
"[W]hat a Crowd of terrible Ideas in this one Simile!"
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Date: 1715-1720
"Tis the natural Discharge of a vast Imagination, heated in its Progress, and giving itself vent in this Crowd of Images"
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