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Date: 1704
"All endeavours must be therefore used, either to divert, bind up, stupify, fluster, and amuse the senses, or else, to justle them out of their stations; and while they are either absent, or otherwise employed, or engaged in a civil war against each other, the spirit enters and performs ...
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
"These and corresponding conditions of being are experienced principally by those of the most delicate sensibility and the most enlarged imagination; and the state of mind produced by them is at war with every base desire"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
