Date: 1746
"Social friends, / Attuned to happy unison of soul; / To whose exalting eye a fairer world, / Of which the vulgar never had a glimpse, / Displays its charms; whose minds are richly fraught / With philosophic stores, superior light; / And in whose breast, enthusiastic, burns / Virtue, the sons of ...
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Date: 1766
"Faction's torch of sulphurous gleam / Shall fire the heart that feels not Fancy's beam."
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Date: 1771, 1776
"The gloomy race / 'By Indolence and moping Fancy bred, / 'Fear, Discontent, Solicitude give place, / 'And Hope and Courage brighten in their stead, / 'While on the kindling soul her vital beams are shed."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)