Date: 1745
"New to each hour what low delight succeeds, / What precious furniture of hearts and heads!"
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1746
Imagination may "Bring what ideas she can find / To the great storehouse of the Mind, / Where Judgement ever sits serene, / To rule the vague and sportive queen"
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1746, 1753
"Feel the thought's image on the eyeball roll; / Behind that window, sits th' attentive Soul:"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1746
The Sisters "Silence, and Contemplation" may "with eternal beauties deck the mind"
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James
Date: 1747
"Stupendous truths! here human wisdom fails, / Lost in a labyrinth of endless thought"
preview | full record— Gilbert, Thomas (bap. 1713, d. 1766)
Date: 1748
Thought is "The hermit's solace in his cell"
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: w. 1740, 1748
"Thirsting for Knowledge, but to know the right, / Thro' judgment's optick guide th' illusive sight, / To let in rays on Reason's darkling cell, / And Prejudice's lagging mists dispel."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1749
"Open a window in our breast, / That each our heart may see"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1753
Man stole the "Mimic Arts at first from Heav'n ... To fill the fairest Mansions of the Soul"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1753
Locke's "guiding Hand th'ideal Blank explores, / And opens wide the Senses' various Doors, / Thro' which the thronging Thoughts their Passage find, / In social Tribes, and stock the peopled Mind."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)