Date: 1705, 1709
"Has She a Bodkin and a Card? / She'll prick her Mind."
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Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"As on the land while here the Ocean gains, / In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains; / Thus in the soul while memory prevails, / The solid pow'r of understanding fails; / Where beams of warm imagination play, / The memory's soft figures melt away."
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Date: 1718
"A thousand little Nerves She sends / Quite to our Toes, and Fingers Ends; / And These in Gratitude again / Return their Spirits to the Brain; / In which their Figure being printed / (As just before, I think, I hinted) / Alma inform'd can try the Case, / As She had seen upon the Place. // Thus, w...
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Date: 1733
"My head and heart thus flowing thro' my quill, / Verse-man or Prose-man, term me which you will."
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Date: 1743
"When Reason doubtful, like the Samian letter, / Points him two ways, the narrower is the better."
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