Date: 1731
"Worn out with Cares, and tott'ring in her Seat, / The Soul resigns her Throne, and seeks Retreat."
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Date: 1731
"No longer Reason could her Empire boast, / But in the soft Astonishment was lost."
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Date: 1732
"While healthful Exercise the Mind unbends, / And Health and Study serve each others Ends: / I view the happy School,--and thence presage / The glorious Harvest of a rising Age."
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Date: 1735, 1792
"Just so supreme, unmated, and alone, / The Soul assumes her intellectual throne"
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Date: 1735, 1792
"Around their queen attendant spirits watch, / Each rising thought with prompt observance catch, / The tidings of internal passion spread, / And thro' each part the swift contagion shed"
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Date: 1735, 1792
"The blood tempestuous, pours a flushing wave" and "With raging swell alternate pantings rise"
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Date: 1735, 1792
The mind "speeds her ministry abroad, / And rules obedient matter with a nod" as "The obsequious mass beneath her influence yields, /And even her will the unwieldy fabric wields"
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Date: 1735, 1792
"Tho' winding paths" the soul's "sprightly envoys fly, / Or watchful in the frontier senses lie"
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Date: 1735, 1792
[Allegories of taste, smell, sound, and vision.]
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Date: 1735, 1792
" Thro' nature traffick on, from pole to pole, / And stamp new worlds on thy dilated soul"
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