Date: 1785
Prejudice may take "deeper root" in "men of stronger minds"
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Date: 1785
Learning may grow beneath Disciplines care, "a thriving and vigorous plant"
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Date: 1785
Rural scenes may "nurse / The growing seeds of wisdom"
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Date: 1785
Virtue is like a "lowly creeping, modest and yet fair" plant that thrives most "where little seen"
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Date: 1785
Man in society is like a flower: "'Tis there alone / His faculties expanded in full bloom/ Shine out"
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Date: 1786
"Like caterpillars dangling under trees / By slender threads, and swinging in the breeze, / Which filthily bewray and sore disgrace / The boughs in which are bred the unseemly race, / While every worm industriously weaves / And winds his web about the rivell'd leaves; / So numerous are the follie...
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Date: 1810
"Your gentle souls are in your myrtle seen; / It's blossoms candid, and benign it's green"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1810
"And these young ruffians in the soul will sow / Seeds of all vices that on weakness grow."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"Thoughts, like Churl's corn, in chamber'd stores entomb'd, / Devour'd by vermin, or, decay, consum'd; / Whose fruits might food, or opulence, afford; / Enrich the Rich, or bless the poor Man's board."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1817
"'--O let not Sloth depress to earth / 'Those early blossoms in their birth, / 'Which to your ripening mind is given, / 'To bloom through time, then rise to heaven!"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)