Date: 1755
Fancy is engendered in the eyes, fed with gazing, and dies in its cradle
preview | full record— Hooker [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
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
"Can the troubled Brain / Of Sleep out-stretch the Reason's waking Eye?"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
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
"Oh! my dear love, quick, quickly drive away / Those boding thoughts which on your quiet prey; / The breed of Fancy, gender'd in the brain, / Nurs'd by the grosser spirits, light, and vain; / The vagrant visions of the sleeping mind, / Which vanish wak'd, nor leave a mark behind."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1756
"Let then my soul and body be a-kin, / Naked without, as desolate within."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1756, 1793
"My heart is pregnant, and my soul on fire"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)