Date: 1735, 1763
"Each shapely offspring of her feeble thought, / A darker veil o'er genuine science brought; / Still stubborn facts o'erthrew their fruitless toil; / For truth and fiction who shall reconcile?"
preview | full record— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)
Date: 1735, 1763
"The mind not taught to think, no useful store / To fix reflection, dreads the vacant hour."
preview | full record— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)
Date: 1735, 1763
"'Midst foreign objects not employ'd to roam, / Thought, sadly active, still corrodes at home."
preview | full record— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)
Date: 1735, 1763
"Unnumber'd fears corrode and haunt his breast, / With all that whim or ign'rance can suggest."
preview | full record— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)
Date: 1735
"God gave us Reason as the Stars were giv'n, / Not to discard the Sun, but mark out Heav'n."
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1735
"That Thought romantic Memory detains / In unknown cells and in aereal chains; / Imagination thence her flow'rs translates, / And Fancy emulous of God, creates."
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1734-1735
"Hark! she invites from city smoke and noise, / Vapours impure, and from impurer joys; / From various evils, that, with rage combin'd, / Untune the body, and pollute the mind."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1736
"Upon the whole, then, our organs of sense and our limbs are certainly instruments which the living persons, ourselves, make use of to perceive and move with: there is not any probability that they are any more; nor consequently, that we have any other kind of relation to them, that what we may h...
preview | full record— Butler, Joseph (1692-1752)
Date: 1736
"Each keeps the other's Image in his Breast, / As Wax preserves the Form a Seal imprest."
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)