Date: 1818
"But poetry makes these odds all even. It is the music of language, answering to the music of the mind, untying as it were 'the secret soul of harmony.'"
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Date: 1818
"It is strictly the language of the imagination; and the imagination is that faculty which represents objects, not as they are in themselves, but as they are moulded by other thoughts and feelings, into an infinite variety of shapes and combinations of power."
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Date: 1818
"This language is not the less true to nature, because it is false in point of fact; but so much the more true and natural, if it conveys the impression which the object under the influence of passion makes on the mind."
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Date: 1819
The master-passion is not always obeyed
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Date: 1819
Reason may "re-ascend her throne" after a burst of "salutary tears"
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Date: 1819
The "war within, these passions in their strife, / If thus protracted, had exhausted life"
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Date: 1819
"A brother's warning on thy heart engrave"
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Date: 1819
"Such acts will stamp their moral on the soul"
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Date: 1819
"'Alas! how soon would doubts again invade / 'The willing mind, and sins again persuade!"
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