Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"From the wise be far / Such gross unhallow'd pride; nor needs my song / Descend so low; but rather now unfold, / If human thought could reach, or words unfold, / By what mysterious fabric of the mind, / The deep-felt joys and harmony of sound / Result from airy motion; and from shape / The lovel...
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Men learn to judge of beauty, and acquire / Those forms set up, as idols in the soul / For love and zealous praise."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1789
"[I]t follows that motives, volitions, and actions, are all the definite effects of definite causes, and that they are all links of that // ---- "golden everlasting chain, / Whose strong embrace holds heaven, and earth, and main."
preview | full record— Belsham, William (1752-1827)