Date: 1697, 1700
"And from the narrow limits of the Heart, / The Active Soul doth vigorous Life impart / To all the Limbs, its Sway the Members own, / Wide is its Empire from its petty Throne."
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Date: 1697
""All Ætna's Caves strove in his lab'ring Soul, / And Stygian Tempests in his veins did rowl""
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Date: 1697
"Its Springs divinely touch'd, his lab'ring Brain / Did this Celestial Vision entertain."
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Date: 1697
"Inexorable Hatred, Pride unmixt / Desp'rate Revenge, and Malice deeply fixt, / With Wrath from every Stain of Love refin'd / Reign'd uncontroul'd in his envenom'd Mind."
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Date: 1697
"But he Employ'd to set their Judgments right, / No Force but Reason's mild but powerful Light."
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Date: 1697
"It reach'd the inmost Marrow of the Brain / Where we perceive our Pleasures, and our Pain. / There where the Soul upon her Throne abides, / And from our Sight conceal'd her Empire guides: / Do's various Orders various Tasks dispence, / To all th'inferiour Ministers of Sence."
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Date: 1697
"We are not pleas'd a glorious World to know, / Whereof our Senses no Impression show."
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Date: 1697
"Reluctant Sense declines the untrodden Path, / Tho aided both by Reason and by Faith."
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Date: 1697
"Amazing Power of Guilt! one great Offence / Benumbs the Mind, and stupifys the Sense, / Binds fast reluctant Conscience with its Charms, / And of its Sting the Worm within disarms."
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Date: 1697
"Our Senses to the Mind while lodg'd in Clay, / Do all their various Images convey. / Things that we tast, and feel, and see, afford / The Seeds of Thought with which our Minds are stor'd."
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