Date: 1748
The sorrowing soul is tempestuous
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Date: 1748
The body is a "frail building falling to decay"
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Date: 1733, 1748
Memory is a "Surprising storehouse! in whose narrow womb / All things, the past, the present, and to come, / Find ample space, and large and mighty room."
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Date: 1733, 1748
"O falsely deemed the foe of sacred wit! / Thou [Memory], who the nurse and guardian art of it, / Laying it up till season due and fit."
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Date: 1733, 1748
"Where thou [Memory] art not, the cheerless human mind / Is one vast void, all darksome, sad, and blind; / No trace of anything remains behind."
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Date: 1733, 1748
"Still let my faithful Memory impart, / And deep engrave it on my grateful heart, / How just, and good, and excellent Thou art."
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Date: 1733, 1748
Memory is a fountain of "endless joy"
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Date: 1764
"Dead Letters, thus with Living Notions fraught, / Prove to the Soul the Telescopes of Thought"
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