Date: 1742
"God beholds all souls bare, and stripped of these corporeal vessels, bark, and filth."
preview | full record— Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180), Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746), and James Moor (bap. 1712, d. 1779)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"For such the bounteous providence of heaven, / In every breast implanting this desire / Of objects new and strange, to urge us on / With unremitted labour to pursue / Those sacred stores that wait the ripening soul, / In Truth's exhaustless bosom."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
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."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: Saturday, December 21, 1751
"A careless glance upon a favourite author, or transient survey of the varieties of life, is sufficient to supply the first hint or seminal idea, which, enlarged by the gradual accretion of matter stored in the mind, is by the warmth of fancy easily expanded into flowers, and sometimes ripened in...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: Performed Dec 1756, published 1757
"Sadly he says, that pity is the best, / The noblest passion of the human breast: / For when its sacred streams the heart o'erflow, / In gushes pleasure with the tide of woe; / And when its waves retire, like those of Nile, / They leave behind them such a golden soil, / That there the virtues wit...
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)
Date: 1771, 1776
"Adieu, ye lays, that fancy's flowers adorn, / The soft amusement of the vacant mind!"
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)