Date: w. 1740, 1748
"But when your early Care shall have design'd / To plan the Soul and mould the waxen Mind; / When you shall pour upon his tender Breast / Ideas that must stand an Age's Test, / Oh! there imprint with strongest deepest dye / The lovely form of Goddess LIBERTY!"
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1751
"Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, / And froze the genial current of the soul."
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1752, 1791
"Thy appetites in easy tides / (As reason's luminary guides) / Soft flow--no wind can work them to a storm, / Correctly quick, dispassionately warm."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1753
Locke's "Logic Line the Depths of Reason found"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1753
Locke's "guiding Hand th'ideal Blank explores, / And opens wide the Senses' various Doors, / Thro' which the thronging Thoughts their Passage find, / In social Tribes, and stock the peopled Mind."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1754
"Religion stamp'd her sorrow-melting heart"
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1754
Soft Repose may glide smooth through the heart, calm as a stream
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1757, 1758, 1771, 1777
"Gentler shapes, and softer scenes disclose, / To melt the feeling heart, yet soothe its tenderest woes"
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1757, 1758, 1771, 1777
"Queen of the human heart! at whose command / The swelling tides of mighty Passion rise."
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1759
"Read Locke, whose penetrating Searches show / The Source, from whence our first Ideas flow; / Whence, with collected Stores, like Waters join'd, / They form the Depths of intellectual Mind."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)