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"To Mr. Robert Atwood. The Kingdom of the Wise Man. [from Horae Lyricae. Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind. In Three Books]"
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Date: 1706, 1709
"We are a little Kingdom; But the Man / That chains his Rebel Will to Reasons Throne, / Forms it a large one."
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Date: 1706, 1709
"In vain the Harlot Pleasure spreads her Charms / To lull his Thoughts in Luxuries fair Lap / To sensual Ease, (the Bane of little Kings, / Monarchs whose waxen Images of Souls / Are moulded into Softness) still his Mind / Wears its own Shape."
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