Date: 1692
"Suspence that torture of the Mind, / Long had our Thoughts in doubts dark Cave confin'd"
preview | full record— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"Reflection is the last and greatest Bliss: / When turning backwards with inverted Eyes, / The Soul it self and all its Charms, surveys, / The deep Impressions of Coelestial Grace / And Image of the Godhead."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1712
"When Man with Reason dignify'd is born, / No Images his naked Mind adorn: / No Sciences or Arts enrich his Brain, / Nor Fancy yet displays her pictur'd Train."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1714, 1723
"The passing Minds their former Load sustain, / Are born, tho' loth, and sheath'd in Flesh again."
preview | full record— Hughes, Jabez (1685-1731)
Date: 1725-6
"Rare on the mind those images are trac'd, / Whose footsteps twenty winters have defac'd."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1729
"E'en not all these, in one rich lot combined, / Can make the happy man, without the mind; / Where judgment sits clear-sighted, and surveys / The chain of reason with unerring gaze; / Where fancy lives, and to the brightening eyes, / His fairer scenes, and bolder figures rise; / Where social lov...
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1739
"Thy wounds upon my heart impress, / Nor [a]ught shall the loved stamp efface"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1742
"The soul is on a rack; the rack of rest, / To souls most adverse; action all their joy."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"Warnings point out our danger; gnomons, time: / As these are useless when the sun is set; / So those, but when more glorious Reason shines. / Reason should judge in all; in Reason's eye, / That sedentary shadow travels hard."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"Through chinks, styled organs, dim Life peeps at light; / Death bursts the' involving cloud, and all is day; / All eye, all ear, the disembodied power."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)