Date: 1725-6
"And oh my Queen! he cries; what pow'r above / Has steel'd that heart, averse to spousal love!"
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Date: 1725-6
"O cruel thou! some fury sure has steel'd / That stubborn soul, by toil untaught to yield!"
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Date: 1725-6
"But sure relentless folly steels thy breast, / Obdurate to reject the stranger-guest"
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Date: 1725-6
"The bowls and urns of living stone, are the body which are form'd out of the earth; the bees that make their honey in the cave are the souls of men, which perform all their operations in the body, and animate it; the beams on which the Nymphs roul their webs, are the bones over which the admirab...
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Date: 1725-6
"[T]he body it self was suppos'd to be the infernal receptacle of the Soul, into which she descended as into a prison, from above; this was thought the sepulchre of the Soul, and the cave of Pluto"
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Date: 1725-6
"Homer therefore evidently understood that the soul ought to govern and direct the passions, and that it is of a nature more divine than harmony"
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Date: 1725-6
"His heart with rage this new dishonour stung, / Wav'ring his thoughts in dubious balance hung; / Or, instant should he quench the guilty flame / With their own blood, and intercept the shame; / Or to their lust indulge a last embrace, / And let the Peers consummate the disgrace?"
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Date: 1725
Freezing blood may congeal around a cold heart
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Date: 1725
As when clouds disperse and restore the day, so may a "sudden flash" rush on the soul
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Date: 1725
"Let reason rule the sallies of the mind"
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