Date: 1725-6
"The manner likewise of its introduction is not less judicious; the mind is apt to dwell upon those objects in sleep which make a deep impression when awake."
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Date: 1725-6
A story "comes with more weight at once, than if it had been made at several times, and consequently makes a deeper impression upon the memory and passion of the auditors"
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Date: 1725-6
"Each warlike Greek the moving music hears, / And iron-hearted Heroes melt in tears"
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Date: 1725-6
"Heav'n has not curst me with a heart of steel, / But giv'n the sense, to pity, and to feel."
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Date: 1725-6
"Deep in my soul the trust shall lodge secur'd, / With ribs of steel, and marble heart immur'd"
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Date: 1725-6
"And oh my Queen! he cries; what pow'r above / Has steel'd that heart, averse to spousal love!"
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Date: 1725-6
"O cruel thou! some fury sure has steel'd / That stubborn soul, by toil untaught to yield!"
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Date: 1725-6
"But sure relentless folly steels thy breast, / Obdurate to reject the stranger-guest"
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"The bowls and urns of living stone, are the body which are form'd out of the earth; the bees that make their honey in the cave are the souls of men, which perform all their operations in the body, and animate it; the beams on which the Nymphs roul their webs, are the bones over which the admirab...
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Date: 1725-6
"[T]he body it self was suppos'd to be the infernal receptacle of the Soul, into which she descended as into a prison, from above; this was thought the sepulchre of the Soul, and the cave of Pluto"
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