Date: 1796
"By force the thirst of weakly sense is cloyed / Silent attend the frown, the gaze, the smile, / To grasp far objects with incessant toil; / So play life's springs with energy, and try / The unceasing thirst of knowledge to supply."
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Date: 1796
In Roman ampitheaters monarchs sat and watched "How beasts of prey could tear the human heart, / Rich with some lov'd impression.-"
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Date: 1796
"Nay, if, like hers, my heart were iron-bound, / My warmth would melt the fetters to the ground"
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