Date: 1747-8
"But I have now once more steeled my heart."
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Date: 1747-8
"Then how my heart began again to play its pug's tricks!"
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Date: 1747-8
"The Eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out"
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Date: 1747-8
"Lovelace, tell me, if thou canst, what sort of sign must thou hang out, wert thou obliged to give us a clear idea by it of the furniture of thy mind?"
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Date: 1747-8
"The window was open. Away the troublesome bosom-visiter [Conscience], the intruder, is flown."
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Date: 1747-8
"But the over-refinement of Platonic sentiments always sinks into the dross and feces of that Passion"
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Date: 1747-8
"If it were only, that I can see this man without losing any of that dignity (what other word can I use, speaking of myself, that betokens decency, and not arrogance?) which is so necessary to enable me to look up, or rather, with the mind's eye, I may say, to l...
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Date: 1747-8
"Each mole-hill thought swells to a huge Olympus; / While we, fantastic dreamers, heave and puff, / And sweat with our imagination's weight."
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Date: 1747-8
"She set even my heart into a palpitation--Thump, thump, thump, like a precipitated pendulum in a clock-case"
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"Which, by recording the principal circumstances of past facts, and laying them close together, in a continued narration, kept the mind from languishing, and gave constant exercise to its reflections."
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