Date: 1730
"In vain with Reason's Ballast do we try / The Ocean of Eternity, / Unfathom'd, without Shore."
preview | full record— Woodward, George (b. 1708?)
Date: 1730
"Learning! that mazy Cobweb of the Brain, / That renders all the Avenues / Of Truth, that in itself is plain, / Impervious and abstruse, / Perplex'd and intricate, / By that false Engine of our Mind, Debate."
preview | full record— Woodward, George (b. 1708?)
Date: 1731
Heaven stamped perfection on Caroline's mind
preview | full record— Pilkington, Matthew (1701-1774)
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: 1735
"As if thy thrifty Soul foreknew, / Like a wise Envoy, Heav'n's Intent / Soon to recall whom it had sent, / And all its Task resolv'd at once to do."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1736
"Each keeps the other's Image in his Breast, / As Wax preserves the Form a Seal imprest."
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1736, 1743
"Hail, heav'n-born Piety! unknown / Where mad Ambition taints the Mind."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1736, 1743
"But Care no Desert can exclude, / We haunt ourselves in Solitude."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1727, 1739
"That Bosom, where thy Image dwells!"
preview | full record— Broome, William (1689-1745); Hesiod