Date: 1735
"And if such dormant Reason bears no fruit, / Dead in the branch, tho' real at the root, / Defect and actual Ignorance are one,"
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1735
"Thro' the dark Void ev'n gleams of Truth can shoot, / And love of Liberty upheave at root."
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1735
"No more the tender seeds unquicken'd lie, / But stretch their form and wait for wings to fly."
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1735
"That Thought romantic Memory detains / In unknown cells and in aereal chains; / Imagination thence her flow'rs translates, / And Fancy emulous of God, creates."
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1736
"Infuse a little Wit into the Scull, / Which never fails to make a mighty Fool; / Two Drams of Faith; a Tun of Doubting next; / Let all be with the Dregs of Reason mixt: / When, in his Mind, these jarring Seeds are sown, / He'll censure all Things, but approve of none."
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1737
"When the luxuriant Ardour of his Youth / Succeeding Years had tam'd to better Growth, / And seem'd to break the Body's Crust away, / To give th'expanded Mind more Room to play; / Which, in its Evening, open'd on the Sight / Surprizing Beams of full Meridian Light, / As thrifty of its Splendor it...
preview | full record— Hughes, Jabez (1685-1731)
Date: 1737
"From threshing Corn, he turns to thresh his Brains; / For which Her M------y allows him Grains."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1738, 1739
"Minds are the Soil, and Precepts are the Seeds: / The richer That, the ranker are the Weeds, / If Weeds it bear: But well repay'd the Toil, / That sows pure Virtue on a fertile Soil."
preview | full record— Bancks, John (1709-1751)
Date: 1738, 1739
"Like Twigs, entrusted to the Planter's Pains, / Who prunes, engrafts, indulges, or restrains, / Till in the Garden Ornament they yield, / And Fruit, which else had cumber'd up the Field: / Or that rich Ore we from the Indies bring, / Which bears, refin'd, the Image of the King; / But mix'd for-e...
preview | full record— Bancks, John (1709-1751)
Date: 1741
"Vertue's noble mark ... extending by degrees, / Shall grow like Letters carv'd on Trees / That widen with the Bark."
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)