Date: 1773, 1810
"Hail, mild Philosophy! the province thine, / To chase the spectres of the dark Divine! / Not to fix errour, but with reason's art, / To root the stiff old-woman from the heart."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1773, 1894-1895
"For what the Bark is to the growing Tree, / To human Mind, that, Patience seems to be; / They hold the Principles of Growth together, / And blunt the Force of Accident, and Weather."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773, 1894-1895
"Patience defends us from all outward Hap; / Of inward Life Thanksgiving is the Sap."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1775
Young thought is "spread" by "kindly cares"
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1775
"Vital airs" alone will not impart "health and vigour" to the soul
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1775
The opening heart is warmed byt "kindly cares"
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1774-1776, 1788, 1803
"Well-skill'd / To form the growing soul, and on its young / And opening bud to fix the impression deep / Of every generous thought"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1780
"Our hearts more free from Faction's Weeds we feel, / But they have loft the Flower of Patriot Zeal"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1782
"Can we then deem that in those happier lands, / Where every vital energy expands; / Where Thought, the golden harvest of the mind, / Springs into rich luxuriance, unconfin'd; / That in such soils, with mental weeds o'ergrown, / The seeds of Poesy were thinly sown?"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1782
"These foes [birds, worms, mildew] combin'd (and with them who may cope?) / Are not more hostile to the Farmer's hope, / Than Life's keen passions to that lighter grain / Of Fancy, scatter'd o'er the infant brain."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)