Date: 1753
"Like our's, to night, Lord Passion sets their task; / Their fears, hopes, flatt'ries--all are passion's masque."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1753
"Where shall a thoughtless youth this treasure find? / This art of judgment, that becalms the mind? / Chains anger short; and sets reflection free, / Gives tumult temper---and makes fortune see?"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1753
"Come then, thou Cordial for sick Minds--Come to my Heart."
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1754
One may have a hole in their heart "thro' which one may run one's head"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1754
"If, holy Father, to be here distress'd, / Seals the repenting Soul to heav'nly rest,"
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1754
"She had from her chamber-window been shot through the heart by the blind archer, who took his stand on the feather of a military man marching at the head of his company through the market-town in which she lived"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1754
"In the first place, we must offer him the tribute of our gold, as to our true King; that is, we must daily present him with our souls, stampt with his own image, and burnished with divine love."
preview | full record— Challoner, Richard (1691-1781)
Date: 1754
"I may with the same Naïvité remove the Veil from my mental as well as personal Imperfections; and expose them naked to the World."
preview | full record— Hay, William (1695-1755)
Date: 1754
"A deformed Person will naturally consider, where his Strength and his Foible lie; and as he is well acquainted with the last, he will easily find out the first; and must know, that (if it is any where) it is not, like Sampson's, in the Hair; but must be in the Lining of the Head."
preview | full record— Hay, William (1695-1755)
Date: 1754
"I shall not, therefore, say any thing further about the nature of mind in general, that secret spring of thought, unknown and unknowable, but shall content myself to observe, in Mr. Locke's method and with his assistance, something about the phænomena of the human mind, by which we may judge sur...
preview | full record— St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)