Date: 1700
"Rack'd with my griefs, my Anxious Soul survives, / Dash'd like a ship which with the Billows drives."
preview | full record— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)
Date: 1700
"Whilst our own Will our Passions shall restrain, / He [Nassaw] gives us each an Empire where to Reign."
preview | full record— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)
Date: 1704
"To my warm Soul such deep Impression give,"
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)
Date: 1713-1714
"Who wrote all this--Who more than this designd / All fine impressions of Celestial mind."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1717
Horror may invade the mind
preview | full record— Dillon, Wentworth, 4th Earl of Roscommon (1637-1685)
Date: 1724
"Thy happy Fancy form'd the bright Design, / And crowding Thoughts with charming Numbers grac'd:"
preview | full record— Concanen, Matthew (1701-1749)
Date: March 13, 1727
"Must these like empty shadows pass, / Or forms reflected from a glass? / Or mere chimeras in the mind, / That fly, and leave no marks behind?"
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: March 13, 1727
"And is not virtue in mankind / The nutriment that feeds the mind; / Upheld by each good action past, / And still continued by the last?"
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1730
"Enlarge the Purlieu of my narrow Mind: / In Colours, plain, expose to Reason's Eye, / What, yet, to Reason Nature does deny"
preview | full record— Smedley, Jonathan (1671-1729)
Date: 1731
Heaven stamped perfection on Caroline's mind
preview | full record— Pilkington, Matthew (1701-1774)