Date: 1730
"Whate'er we see, whate'er we feel, / Does all the God reveal, / Confirms the Grand Mistake / Of Those, whose Eagle-Thoughts would make / His Seat so wondrous high, / Beyond the Limits of the Sky, /Out beyond the World's wide Sphear, /And fix his Habitation there."
preview | full record— Woodward, George (b. 1708?)
Date: 1730
"Whether we send our Reason's piercing Rays / Beneath the Great, unbounded Deep, / Where Storms and Tempests sleep, / Whether unrein'd Imagination strays / Thro' the black, Howling Desart's pathless Ways, / The Deep and Howling Wilderness declare / The Omnipresent Godhead there."
preview | full record— Woodward, George (b. 1708?)
Date: 1732
"How curs'd the Man, who still is musing found? / His Mill-Horse Soul forms one eternal Round?"
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1732
"Malice, and Lust, voracious Birds of Prey, / That out-soar Reason, and our Wishes sway; / Desires' wild Seas, on which the wise are tost, / By Pilot Indolence, are safely crost."
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1760?
The Grace teaches "When to check the sportive Vein; / When to Fancy give the Rein."
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1766
"And strong discretion bridles restive wit."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1773
"'Grief, like a canker-worm at heart, / 'Had ravag'd from his inmost cell;"
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)
Date: 1773
"'How sweetly Women bill and coo! [...] 'No gall finds room within their breast, / 'There Turtle Love erects his nest."
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)
Date: 1788
"While, seeking pleasures, and avoiding pains, / Will whips, or curbs, as reason holds the reins."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)