Date: 1705, 1709
"Let all her Ways be unconfin'd: / And clap your Padlock--on her Mind"
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Date: 1706
"Oh! where shall I begin? what language find / To heal the raging anguish of your mind?"
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Date: 1706, 1709
"In vain the Harlot Pleasure spreads her Charms / To lull his Thoughts in Luxuries fair Lap / To sensual Ease, (the Bane of little Kings, / Monarchs whose waxen Images of Souls / Are moulded into Softness) still his Mind / Wears its own Shape."
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Date: 1707
"How sad our State by Nature is! / Our Sin how deep it stains! / And Satan binds our captive Minds / Fast in his slavish Chains."
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Date: 1707
"Why should we vex and grieve his love, / Who seals our souls to heavenly life?"
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Date: 1708
"As if his hollow Skull had been / A Hive fill'd full of Bees within" who "To Wax and Honey turn'd his Brains; / For the long Speech he did transmit, / Was sometimes hard, and sometimes sweet"
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Date: 1709
"One weeping, only Son She left behind, / With all her Goodness stampt upon his Mind"
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Date: 1709
"Their Minds, just molded, the Impression took"
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Date: 1709
"O stamp upon my Soul / Some blissful Image of the fair Deceas'd / To call my Passions and my Eyes aside / From the dear breathless Clay."
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Date: 1709, 1810
"Nothing can describe the soul: / 'Tis a region half unknown, / That has treasures of its own. / More remote from public view / Than the bowels of Peru; / Broader 'tis, and brighter far, / Than the golden Indies are; / Ships that trace the wat'ry stage / Cannot coast it in an age; / Harts, or hor...
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