Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"From the wise be far / Such gross unhallow'd pride; nor needs my song / Descend so low; but rather now unfold, / If human thought could reach, or words unfold, / By what mysterious fabric of the mind, / The deep-felt joys and harmony of sound / Result from airy motion; and from shape / The lovel...
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Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Men learn to judge of beauty, and acquire / Those forms set up, as idols in the soul / For love and zealous praise."
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Date: 1816
"[I]n that Tale I find / The furrows of long thought, and dried-up tears, / Which, ebbing, leave a sterile track behind."
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Date: 1816
"But men's thoughts were the steps which paved thy throne, / Their admiration thy best weapon shone."
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Date: 1816
"Conquerors and Kings, / Founders of sects and systems, to whom add / Sophists, Bards, Statesmen, all unquiet things / Which stir too strongly the soul's secret springs, / And are themselves the fools to those they fool."
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Date: 1818
"The Beings of the Mind are not of clay: / Essentially immortal, they create / And multiply in us a brighter ray / And more beloved existence"
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