Date: January, 1754; 1791
"Survey the magnet's sympathetic love, / That wooes the yielding needle; contemplate / Th'attractive amber's power, invisible / Ev'n to the mental eye."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1754
"For [Fancy], / The blue ethereal Arch expands; her Table / Spread out with all the Dainties of the Sky, / Imagination's rich Regale."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1755
"Those would seem Gentlemen! who strut the Mall, / In Waistcoats lac'd on Sundays--troll about, / Leaving their Minds undrest--all Show without."
preview | full record— Arnold, Cornelius (b. 1714, d. in or after 1758)
Date: 1755, 1836
One is mistaken if he hopes to find "In shades a med'cine for a troubled mind"
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1755
If the "emanating mind" superior soars, virtue binds it with ties of reason
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel
Date: 1755
The "busy Statesman's mind" may grow putrid on the throne of power so that "Fresh vices spring up ev'ry hour; / As in dead corses serpents breed, / And loathsome, on corruption feed"
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: March 1756
"But not to all,--for hark! the organs blow / Their swelling notes round the cathedral's dome, / And grace th'harmonious choir, celestial feast / To pious ears, and med'cine of the mind."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1756, 1793
"My heart is pregnant, and my soul on fire"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1757-9
"To Gold yields Silver, and to Virtue Gold, / If Reason's Hand th'impartial Balance hold."
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]
Date: w. 1757, 1758
"Oh how this earth's best blessings sink in worth, / When on that scene is open'd the mind's eyes!"
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)