Date: 1697
"Inexorable Hatred, Pride unmixt / Desp'rate Revenge, and Malice deeply fixt, / With Wrath from every Stain of Love refin'd / Reign'd uncontroul'd in his envenom'd Mind."
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Date: 1697
"But he Employ'd to set their Judgments right, / No Force but Reason's mild but powerful Light."
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Date: 1697
"It reach'd the inmost Marrow of the Brain / Where we perceive our Pleasures, and our Pain. / There where the Soul upon her Throne abides, / And from our Sight conceal'd her Empire guides: / Do's various Orders various Tasks dispence, / To all th'inferiour Ministers of Sence."
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Date: 1697
"We are not pleas'd a glorious World to know, / Whereof our Senses no Impression show."
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Date: 1697
"Reluctant Sense declines the untrodden Path, / Tho aided both by Reason and by Faith."
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Date: 1697
"Amazing Power of Guilt! one great Offence / Benumbs the Mind, and stupifys the Sense, / Binds fast reluctant Conscience with its Charms, / And of its Sting the Worm within disarms."
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Date: 1697
"Our Senses to the Mind while lodg'd in Clay, / Do all their various Images convey. / Things that we tast, and feel, and see, afford / The Seeds of Thought with which our Minds are stor'd."
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Date: 1697
"Oh, let no groundless Prejudice oppose / The Light, that from so pure a Fountain flows. / May these kind Beams dispel the Clouds, and find / An unobstructed Passage to your Mind."
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Date: 1697
"A lawless Rout of Passions still engage / In Nature's Cause with hideous Noise and Rage. / Reason is in the Tumult quite supprest, / And still the safest side we think the best."
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Date: 1710
"My design is to speak of no other kind of LOVE but that which Beauty begets in the Appetite, and of those various Storms and Emotions it raiseth both in the Soul and Body."
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