Date: 1715-1720
"[W]hat a Crowd of terrible Ideas in this one Simile!"
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Date: 1715-1720
"Tis the natural Discharge of a vast Imagination, heated in its Progress, and giving itself vent in this Crowd of Images"
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Date: 1723
"Then, gentle Muse, be still my Guest; / Take full Possession of my Breast."
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Date: 1733
"I nod in Company, I wake at Night, / Fools rush into my Head, and so I write."
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Date: 1733-4
"Love, hope, and joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, / Hate, fear, and grief, the family of pain, / These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd, / Make, and maintain, the balance of the mind."
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Date: 1733-4
"Passions, tho' selfish, if their means be fair, / List under Reason, and deserve her care"
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Date: 1737
""Alas, my soul! thou pleasing companion of this body, thou fleeting thing that art now deserting it! whither art thou flying? to what unknown scene? all trembling, fearful, and pensive! what now is become of thy former wit and humour? thou shalt jest and be gay no more."
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Date: 1737
"My Mind resumes the thread it dropt before; / Thoughts, which at Hyde-Park-Corner I forgot, / Meet and rejoin me, in my pensive Grott. "
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Date: 1737, 1743
"The People all running to the Capital City, is like a Confluence of all the Animal Spirits to the Heart; a Symptom that the Constitution is in Danger."
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