Date: 1737 (also 1738, 1743, reprinted 1754)
"But, if dull fogs invade the head, / That mem'ry minds not what is read."
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Date: 1737 (also 1738, 1743, reprinted 1754)
"In rainy days keep double guard, / Or spleen will surely be too hard, / Which, like those fish by sailors met, / Flies highest, while its wings are wet."
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Date: 1737 (also 1738, 1743, reprinted 1754)
"Fain would he see some distant scene / Suggested by his restless spleen, / And fancy's telescope applies / With tinctur'd glass to cheat his eyes."
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Date: 1737 (also 1738, 1743, reprinted 1754)
"Here nymphs from hollow oaks relate / The dark decrees and will of fate, / And dreams beneath the spreading beach / Inspire, and docile fancy teach; / While, soft as breezy breath of wind, / Impulses rustle thro' the mind."
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Date: October, 1739
"Bid Fancy quit her fairy cell, / In all her colours drest / While prompt her sallies to control, / Reason, the judge, recalls the soul / To Truth's severest test."
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Date: October, 1739
"That last best effort of [Science's] skill, / To form the life, and rule the will, / Propitious power! impart."
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Date: October, 1739
"Teach me to cool my passion's fires, / Make me the judge of my desires / The master of my heart."
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Date: 1742
"Not all the chains that tyrants use / Shall bind their souls to vice."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1742
"He binds my Name upon his Arm, / And seals it on his Heart."
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Date: 1742
"No more shall trickling Sorrows roll / Thro' those dear Windows of his Soul."
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