Date: 1730
"And why thy Locke, / Who made the whole internal world his own?"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1730
"Britannia's state what bounds confine? / (Of rising thought O golden mine!) / Mountains, Alps, streams, gulfs, oceans, set no bound."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1731
Heaven stamped perfection on Caroline's mind
preview | full record— Pilkington, Matthew (1701-1774)
Date: 1731
"Let me forever on thy Bosom rest, / Stamp'd on thy Heart, and seal'd within thy Breast!"
preview | full record— Thompson, Isaac (1703-1776)
Date: 1732
"Thoughts crowd on Thoughts, as Alps on Alps arise, / And Worlds of Wonder open to my Eyes."
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1733-1735
"Various rude Arts the untaught Ancients knew / To fix Ideas e'er they fled away, / And Images of Thought to Sight convey. / Brass, Wax, or Wood the Characters retain'd, / Some liv'd on Slates, and some the Canvas stain'd; / Some trac'd in Iv'ry, or engrav'd on Stone, / Or sunk in Clay, e're Bi...
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1733-1735
"Still be his Image on your Mind imprest; / Be that the Mirror which you most admire, / Mortality itself can rise no higher."
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1733-5
"[Love's] Pleasures have so many Pains, / And leave such Stings behind, / That I'm resolv'd to quit the Chains, / And free my captive Mind."
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1733
"I love to pour out all myself, as plain / As downright Shippen, or as old Montagne. / In them, as certain to be lov'd as seen, / The Soul stood forth, nor kept a Thought within; / In me what Spots (for Spots I have) appear, / Will prove at least the Medium must be clear."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1733-4
"On Life's vast ocean diversely we sail, / Reason the card, but Passion is the gale."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)