Date: 1743
"Though grey our heads, our thoughts and aims are green; / Like damaged clocks, whose hand and bell dissent; / Folly sings six, while Nature points at twelve."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1743
"That thought is the machine, / The grand machine that heaves us from the dust, / And rears us into men!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Passion's fierce illapse / Rouzes the mind's whole fabric; with supplies / Of daily impulse keeps the elastic powers / Intensely poiz'd, and polishes anew / By that collision all the fine machine: / Else rust would rise, and foulness, by degrees / Incumbering, choak at last what heaven design'd ...
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1745
"There is, I grant, a triumph of the pulse, / A dance of spirits, a mere froth of joy, / Our thoughtless Agitation's idle child, / That mantles high, that sparkles, and expires, / Leaving the soul more vapid than before; / An animal ovation! such as holds / No commerce with our reason, but subsis...
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1747-8
"She set even my heart into a palpitation--Thump, thump, thump, like a precipitated pendulum in a clock-case"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"So now, Belford, as thou hast said, I am a machine at last, and no free agent."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: October 1750, 1752, 1791
"The less the body to the view, / The soul (like springs in closer durance pent) / Is all exertion, ever new, / Unceasing, unextinguish'd, and unspent"
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1751
"If any Man hath found out a Kind of Motive which doth not affect himself, he hath made a deeper Investigation into the 'Springs, Weights, and Balances' of the human Heart, than I can pretend to."
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1752
A puppet may be "compell'd by secret Springs" just as an engine "moves with Motions not its own"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1753
"Passion! the spring, that all life's wheels employs, / Winds up the working thought--and heightens joys."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)