Date: 1767
"A Mind is a balance for thousands a year."
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1767, 1784
"Shall we, because we strive in vain to tell / How Matter acts on incorporeal Mind, / Or how, when sleep has lock'd up ev'ry sense, / Or fevers rage, Imagination paints / Unreal scenes, reject what sober sense, / And calmest thought attest?"
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1755, 1771
"In every human breast there lives enshrined / Some atom pregnant with the' etherial mind; / Some plastic power, some intellectual ray, / Some genial sunbeam from the source of day; / Something that, warm and restless to aspire, / Works the young heart, and sets the soul on fire, / And bids us al...
preview | full record— Cawthorn, James (1719-1761)
Date: 1755, 1771
"Tasteless of all that virtue gives to please, / For thought too active, and too mad for ease, / From wish to wish in life's mad vortex toss'd, / For ever struggling, and for ever lost; / He scorns religion, though her seraphs call, / And lives in rapture, or not lives at all."
preview | full record— Cawthorn, James (1719-1761)
Date: 1771, 1772
"Then weigh the balance in your mind, / Look forward, not one glance behind"
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1781
"[A]ll you've said / Seems to wear Reason's stamp."
preview | full record— Keate, George (1729-1797)
Date: 1781
"But as a Bow that's always bent / Hath soon its force elastic spent; / So, lest the over-burthen'd brain / (Which can't too great a weight sustain) / Should not so much rich food digest, / 'Tis sometimes good to give it rest."
preview | full record— Keate, George (1729-1797)
Date: 1781
"Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind / To stamp a lasting image of the mind!"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1785-7, 1791, 1792
"Thus a large dumpling to its cell confin'd / (A very apt allusion to my mind)."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1786, 1816
"In vain at glory gudgeon Boswell snaps-- / His mind's a paper kite--compos'd of scraps / Just o'er the tops of chimneys form'd to fly."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)