Date: 1782
One may have a mind "Not yet so blank, or fashionably blind, / But now and then perhaps a feeble ray /Of distant wisdom shoots across his way."
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Date: 1782
One may have a mind "Not yet so blank, or fashionably blind, / But now and then perhaps a feeble ray /Of distant wisdom shoots across his way"
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Date: w. 1782-3, 1801
All the mind, "in all her faculties refined," may taste "happiness complete"
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Date: w. 1769, 1784
Religion "'Tis fancy all, distempers of the mind / As Education taught us, we're inclined."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1785
"In cities foul example on most minds / Begets its likeness"
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Date: 1785
The mind may be pregnant "with some new theme"
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Date: 1785
"All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil; hurts the faculties, impedes / Their progress in the road of science; blinds / The eyesight of discovery, and begets / In those that suffer it, a sordid mind."
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Date: 1785
"Thy saints proclaim thee King; and in their hearts / Thy title is engraven with a pen / Dipt in the fountain of eternal love"
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Date: 1785
The "eyesight of discovery" may be blinded by constraints
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