Date: 1762
"My soul, that never melted before; it was like the steel of my sword"
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Date: 1762
"A troubled joy rose on her mind, like the red path of lightning on a stormy cloud!'
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Date: 1762
"'Rest thou,' I said, 'behind my shield; rest in peace, thou beam of light! the gloomy chief of Sora will fly, if Fingal's arm is like his soul."
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Date: 1762
"The soul of Nathos was sad, like the sun in the day of mist, when his face is watry and dim."
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Date: 1762
"He beholds him with bursting joy; and turns, amid his crowded soul"
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Date: 1762
"Yet, when by Fancy’s Influence unconfin’d, / Does Wisdom give my throbbing Bosom Laws? / Do calmer Thoughts compose my ruffled Mind?"
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Date: w. 1739, 1762
"Come Melancholy! silent Pow'r, / Companion of my lonely Hour, / To sober thought confin'd: / Thou sweetly-sad ideal Guest, / In all thy soothing Charms confest, / Indulge my pensive Mind."
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Date: w. 1739, 1762
"Ye pale Inhabitants of Night, / Before my intellectual Sight / In solemn Pomp ascend."
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Date: w. 1739, 1762
"Ye faithless Idols of our Sense, / Here own how vain your fond Pretence, / Ye empty Names of Joy!"
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Date: w. 1739, 1762
Melancholy's "transient Forms like Shadows pass, / Frail Offspring of the magic Glass, / Before the mental Eye."
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