Date: 1681
The Soul "sup[s] above, and cannot stay / To bait so long upon the way"
preview | full record— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
Date: 1714
In the afterlife, "each Soul must drink long Draughts / Of those forgetful Streams."
preview | full record— Evans, Abel (1679-1737)
Date: 1718
"Our faithful Censor laid asleep within, / We undisturb'd take down full Draughts of Sin."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1718
"And now the fair Ideas, which possest / Your Mind, by loose and vicious Thoughts opprest, / How will you wing your Way to Realms above, / And feast your Soul with Extasies of Love"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1726
"O! teach me what is Good! teach me thy self! / Save me from Folly, Vanity and Vice, / From every low Pursuit! and feed my Soul, / With Knowledge, conscious Peace, and Vertue pure, / Sacred, substantial, never-fading Bliss!"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: March 13, 1727
"And is not virtue in mankind / The nutriment that feeds the mind; / Upheld by each good action past, / And still continued by the last?"
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1735-6
"See! the full board / That steams disgust, and bowls that give no joy; / No truth invited there, to feed the mind; / Nor wit, the wine-rejoicing reason quaffs."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1745
"Drink early then, my Friend, at Reason's Bowl, / And fill with wholesome Draughts thy youthful Soul. / If Wine or Gall the Recent Vessel stains, / Each Scent alike the faithful Cask retains."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)