Date: 1722
"nor is my heart nae mair than yours of steel"
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Date: 1722
"No impious Itch of Empire fires our Mind, / Nor are our Hearts to those base Thoughts inclin'd."
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Date: 1722
"Yon Knight said he, in War is so expert, / And has it so engraven on his Heart, / That he unto a very Point does know, / Each Stratagem, and nice Punctilio."
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Date: 1722
" The Print of Love new-stamp'd his ductile Breast, / And with soft Characters his Soul Imprest"
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Date: 1722
"Yea Virtue was thy chief and great Concern. / A bounteous Hand, a Heart as true as Steel, / A steady Mind, most courteous and gentile"
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Date: 1722
"A Savage Fury brandishes each Dart, / And reeking Slaughter steels each impious Heart."
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Date: 1722
"Sages Illumin'd with interiour Light, [...] have foretold, how Wallace great in Arms, / Shall fill our Plains with War and fierce Alarms."
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Date: 1724
A man may be ruled by "Honour and true Reason," "Which makes Submission to his Will / Nae Slav'ry, but a just Delight"
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Date: 1724
Shafts more subtile, may be darted from the Eye and "Thro' softer Hearts with silent Conquest fly"
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Date: 1726
"The Year, yet pleasing, but declining fast, / Soft, o'er the secret Soul, in gentle Gales, / A Philosophic Melancholly breathes, / And bears the swelling Thought aloft to Heaven."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)