Date: 1732
The fancy may own its errors and humbly bow to Reason
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Date: 1732
"Malice, and Lust, voracious Birds of Prey, / That out-soar Reason, and our Wishes sway; / Desires' wild Seas, on which the wise are tost, / By Pilot Indolence, are safely crost."
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Date: 1746
Imagination may "Bring what ideas she can find / To the great storehouse of the Mind, / Where Judgement ever sits serene, / To rule the vague and sportive queen"
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1771, 1806
" 'Tho' from my mind each flatt'ring thought retir'd, / 'And in my bosom Hope and Peace expir'd;"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1779
Jesus may "inhabitest the humble mind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
"Throughout mankind, the Christian kind at least, / There dwells a consciousness in every breast."
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Date: 1782
"Hence all that is in man, pride, passion, art, / Powers of the mind , and feelings of the heart, / Insensible of Truth's almighty charms, / Starts at her first approach, and sounds to arms!"
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Date: 1782
"Peace of mind" is a delightful guest that may make its "downy nest" in a "sad heart"
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Date: 1785
A meagre intellect is "unfit / To be tenant of man's noble form"
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Date: 1785
Knowledge and wisdom dwell in the head: knowledge in "heads replete with thoughts of other men" and wisdom "in minds attentive of their own"
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