Date: 1714 [1712, 1717]
"They shift the moving Toyshop of their Heart; / Where Wigs with Wigs, with Sword-knots Sword-knots strive, / Beaus banish Beaus, and Coaches Coaches drive"
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Date: 1714 [1712, 1717]
"Just in that instant, anxious Ariel sought / The close Recesses of the Virgin's thought."
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Date: 1717, 1736
"Most souls, 'tis true, but peep out once an age, / Dull sullen pris'ners in the body's cage."
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Date: 1717, 1736
"Dim lights of life that burn a length of years, / Useless, unseen, as lamps in sepulchres"
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Date: 1717, 1736
"Like Eastern Kings a lazy state they keep, / And close confin'd in their own palace sleep."
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Date: 1728, 1729, 1736
"She form'd this image of well-bodied air, / With pert flat eyes she window'd well its head, / A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead, / And empty words she gave, and sounding strain, / But senseless, lifeless! idol void and vain!"
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