Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"But beyond / This energy of truth, whose dictates bind / Assenting reason, the benignant sire, / To deck the honour'd paths of just and good, / Has added bright imagination's rays."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"For man loves knowledge, and the beams of truth / More welcome touch his understanding's eye, / Than all the blandishments of sound his ear, / Than all of taste his tongue."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Of good and evil much, / And much of mortal man my thought revolv'd; / When starting full on fancy's gushing eye / The mournful image of Parthenia's fate, / That hour, o long belov'd and long deplor'd."
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Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Hitherto the stores, / Which feed thy mind and exercise her powers, / Partake the relish of their native soil, / Their parent earth."
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Date: 1745
"'Deep are the Wounds that plough the guilty Mind, / 'Nor golden Crowns the rising Pang can quell."
preview | full record— Mendez, Moses (d. 1758); Gil Blas [Alain-René Lesage] (1668-1747)
Date: 1745
"'Tis Pride, or Emptiness, applies the straw / That tickles little minds to mirth effuse; / Of grief approaching, the portentous sign!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)