Date: 1780
"Tread down Thy foes, with power control / The beast and devil in my soul."
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Date: 1772-1781, 1781
"But, if thy faint springs / Refuse this large supply, steel thy firm soul / With stoic pride"
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Date: 1781
The "passive mind" may be (merely) impressed by substances and modes
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Date: 1781
"[A]ll you've said / Seems to wear Reason's stamp."
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Date: 1781
"'Gainst fear and pity now thy bosom steel, / For sights more horrible I now reveal!"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1781
Fancy may never "view a shape of lovelier kind / In the bright mirror of her Shakespeare's mind."
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Date: 1781
"Thus our young lord, with fashion's phrase refin'd, / Fineer'd the mean interior of his mind"
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Date: 1781
"But now, farewell, ye flow'ry Cells, / Where bright Imagination dwells, / Round whom in Circles ever gay / The young Ideas love to play"
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Date: 1781
"Well may'st thou bend o'er this congenial sphere; / For Sensibility is sovereign here."
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Date: 1781
"Her teeming Thoughts with bright Conceptions glow, / Ideas crowd, and Lines spontaneous flow."
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