Consumed the phlogiston you used to admire,
The spirit extracted, extinguish'd the fire;
Let out all the ether, so pure and refined,
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And left but a mere caput mortuum behind.
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[CONCLUDING LINES OF AN EPISTLE TO PRINCE WILLIAM HENRY, AFTERWARDS KING WILLIAM IV.]
[April, 1780.]
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Who thus aspiring sings, would'st thou explore?