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Date: 1754
"But memory will never present ideas to the human mind, as it does perhaps to superior intelligences, like objects in a mirror, where they may be viewed at every instant, all at once, without effort or toil, in their original freshness, and with their original precision, such as they were when th...
preview | full record— St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)
Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"Since, in the steps of clerical degree, / All through the telescope of fancy see."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)