Date: 1780
"I must steel my heart against the allurements of friendship and of pleasure"
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Date: 1780
"Generous Britain scorns to bind, / In servile chains, the freeborn mind."
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Date: 1780
"Once love gets into a man's head, poor reason is brought before a court-martial of the passions, and cashiered without a hearing"
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Date: February 24, 1777; 1781
"She is the deceitful sorceress who now holds your husband's heart in bondage."
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Date: 1784
"Pistols prim'd and carbines loaded, / Courage strikes on hearts of steel"
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Date: 1785
Play [gambling] may be a ruling passion
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Date: 1785
In the "scales of suspense" two fancies may be hung
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Date: 1785
"To Younge, where the smile-stealing comic we find, / With the soft, the sublime, and the graceful combin'd. / To Younge who can each diff'rent passion impart, / Who pleases the judgement, but conquers the heart, / And guided by Nature, is followed by Art."
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Date: May 18, 1782, 1785
"Why is the countenance made a mask for the soul, when it should be a mirror, in which every eye might behold the true features of the mind, in the deformity of vice, or the loveliness of virtue!"
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Date: May 18, 1782, 1785
"Oh, that every heart was like mine, a stranger to dissimulation!"
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