Date: 1728
Strait the fierce Storm involves his Mind anew, / Flames thro' the Nerves, and boils along the Veins; / While anxious Doubt distracts the tortur'd Heart; / For even the sad Assurance of his Fears / Were Heaven to what he feels."
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Date: 1735-6
"The Persian fetters, that inthrall'd the mind, / Were turn'd to formal and apparent chains."
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Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Or flows their semblance from that mystic tone / To which the new-born mind's harmonious powers / At first were strung?"
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Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Whence is this effect, / This kindred power of such discordant things? /Or flows their semblance from that mystic tone / To which the new-born mind's harmonious powers / At first were strung? Or rather from the links / Which artful custom twines around her frame?"
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Date: 1745
"He says that, tho' he were not nobly born, / Nature has form'd him noble, generous, brave, / Truely magnanimous, and warmly scorning / Whatever bears the smallest Taint of Baseness: / That every easy Virtue is his own; / Not learnt by painful Labour, but inspir'd, / Implanted in his Soul."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1745
"The Duties of his Day / Were all discharg'd, and gratefully enjoy'd / It's noblest Blessings; calm, as Evening Skies, / Was his pure Mind, and lighted up with Hopes / That open Heaven; when, for his last long Sleep / Timely prepar'd, a Lassitude of Life, / A pleasing Weariness of mortal Joy, / F...
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Date: 1751
"They [sense, imagination, and passion] are no more than the several Species of simple Colours laid, as it were, upon the Pallet; which, variously combined and associated by the Hand of an experienced Master, would indeed call forth every striking Resemblance, every changeful Feature of the Heart...
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
"Why did I not / Repent, while yet my Crimes were decibel! / Ere they had struck their Colours thro' my Soul, / As black as Night or Hell!"
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Date: 1813
"The Mind, that broods o’er guilty woes / Is like the Scorpion girt by fire"
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Date: 1816
"But men's thoughts were the steps which paved thy throne, / Their admiration thy best weapon shone."
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