Date: 1792
"We from your judgment to your hearts appeal, / Generous as brave, you are not hearts of steel"
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Date: 1792
"That sweet enchantress ... Can give to Fancy's work a blaze more bright, / Or Reason's steady lamp feed with new light."
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Date: 1792
"Her Heart a Stranger to Disguise; / Her Mind as perfect as her Face"
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Date: 1792
"Howe'er on classic grounds they take defence; / Howe'er adroit their nostrums they dispense; / Impartially let loss and gain be tried, / And soon the balance Reason will decide."
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Date: 1791, 1792
"For thou to me canst sov'reign bliss impart, / Thy mind my empire--and my throne thy heart."
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Date: 1792
Rude signs may be expressive of "moral sense / Stamp'd on each heart"
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Date: 1792
"[T]he heart's decisions" may be "stamp'd / By Nature's seal, and man's primæval laws"
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Date: 1792
"They bade retentive memory on their mind / Impress each image, in distinctive lines / That mock'd erasure."
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Date: 1792
The Roman senators moved the mind by sympathetic strokes and oped "the effect of each impression on their own warm mind"
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Date: 1792
The Roman senators "ne'er essay'd to steal into the heart, / By painting to the feelings"
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