Date: 1768
The blind may be given the "better graces of the mind," such as "Genius, and Learning's Thews, and Judgement's light"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1768
"War smil'd, while triple Rage new steel'd his heart."
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1768
"This Winged Boy a gentle mind did bear, / As gentle as the beast [a lamb] which him up-bore, / Ne could he see th'unhappy drop a tear / But it would make his breast with pity sore, / And he himself would weep and grieve therefore."
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: w. 1766, 1768
"And reason fixed her empire in my breast."
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1768
"How the history of Utopia holds up in the mirror of fancy, the picture of a well policied state, its arts, its laws, and government?"
preview | full record— Wynne, Edward (1734-1784)
Date: September 30, 1769?
"To nature and the passions dead, / A brothel is his house and bed; / To fan the flame of warm desire, / And after wanton in the fire, / He thinks a labour; and his parts / Were not designed to conquer hearts."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: September 30, 1769
"A sage philosopher, to try / What pupil saw with reason's eye,"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: November, 1769?
"And give me back my heart again, / And oh! instruct the roving guest, / No more to wander from my breast."
preview | full record— Shaw, Cuthbert (1738-1771)
Date: 1769
"Vain therefore, and entirely to be rejected, is that Principle published to the World, by a celebrated Philosopher of the last Century, namely, that the Soul in its first created State, has nothing in it, but is a mere Rasa Tabula, or blank Paper."
preview | full record— Law, William (1686-1761)
Date: 1769
"For every Creature of this World, animate or inanimate, is in its Degree, a Microcosm of all the Powers, that are in the great World, of which it is a Part."
preview | full record— Law, William (1686-1761)