Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"'Twas thus, if ancient fame the truth unfold, / Two faithful needles, from the informing touch / Of the same parent-stone, together drew / Its mystic virtue, and at first conspir'd / With fatal impulse quivering to the pole."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Passion's fierce illapse / Rouzes the mind's whole fabric; with supplies / Of daily impulse keeps the elastic powers / Intensely poiz'd, and polishes anew / By that collision all the fine machine: / Else rust would rise, and foulness, by degrees / Incumbering, choak at last what heaven design'd ...
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Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"These the part / Perform of eager monitors, and goad / The soul more sharply than with points of steel, / Her enemies to shun or to resist."
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Date: 1753
"But their Hearts were steel'd by Custom."
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Date: 1753
"Tis well you have a Heart of Stone, the Tale wou'd melt it else."
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