Date: 1746
"All raving Passions soon wou'd be supprest" is man cou'd "but thro' eternity pervade"
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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: 1746
"Soon as thy heart did feel / The pardon-stamping seal"
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Date: 1746
" Justify us by Thy right, / And stamp us with Thy seal"
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Date: 1746
"His bleeding love 'tis Thine to seal / With pardon on the contrite heart:"
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Date: 1746
"As the grave sage, who studies to explore, / Some cause phaenonimous--unknown before, / With patience waits--revolving in his mind / The vast events--attending human kind, / Till some propitious star his soul inspires, / And gives the great solution he requires."
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Date: 1746, 1749
"For Peace and War succeed by Turns in Love, / And while tempestuous these Emotions roll, / And float with blind Disorder in the Soul."
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Date: 1747
"Since here defective, Heaven be so kind / With never-fading charms to dress my mind"
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Date: 1747
The soul may let in "the baneful poison of repeated sin" as the snuff-taker does snuff
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