"For if vast Thoughts shou'd play about a <i>Mind</i> / Inclos'd in Flesh, and dregging cumbrous Life, / Fluttering and beating in the mournful Cage, / It soon wou'd break its Grates and wing away."
Pr&aelig;-existence. A Poem, In Imitation of Milton.
3 entries in ESTC (1714, 1740, 1800).<br>
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<u>Pr&aelig;-Existence. A Poem, In Imitation of Milton.</u> (London: Printed for John Clark, at the Bible and Crown in the Old Change, near St. Paul’s, 1714). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T2349">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;