Date: 1742
"As harmonious colours mutually give and receive a lustre by their friendly union; so do these ennobling sentiments of the human mind."
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Date: 1742, 1777
"The fabric and constitution of our mind no more depends on our choice, than that of our body."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1742
"My soul is dead, my heart is stone, / A cage of birds and beasts unclean, / A den of thieves, a dire abode / Of dragons, but no house of God."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1742
"AN Inward Baptism of Fire / Wherewith to be baptiz'd I have; / 'Tis all my longing Soul's Desire, / This, only This my soul can save."
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Date: 1743
Sleep may torment one's imagination "with Fantoms too dreadful to be described"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1743
"Friendship! Mysterious Cement of the Soul!"
preview | full record— Blair, Robert (1699-1746)
Date: 1743
"Imagination's fool, and Error's wretch, / Man makes a Death which Nature never made; / Then on the point of his own fancy falls, / And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1743
"Death's admonitions, like shafts upwards shot, / More dreadful by delay,--the longer ere / They strike our hearts, the deeper is their wound."
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Date: 1743
"O think how deep, Lorenzo! here it stings: / Who can appease its anguish? How it burns! / What hand the barb'd, envenom'd thought can draw?"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)