Date: 1744
"We wish our names eternally to live: / Wild dream! which ne'er had haunted human thought / Had not our natures been eternal too."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"To store up treasure with incessant toil,-- / This is man's province, this his highest praise, / To this great end keen Instinct stings him on. / To guide that Instinct, Reason! is thy charge; / 'Tis thine to tell us where true treasure lies."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"Yet still, through their disgrace [the passions'], no feeble ray / Of greatness shines, and tells us whence they fell: / But these (like that fallen monarch [Adam] when reclaim'd) / When Reason moderates the rein aright, / Shall re-ascend, remount their former sphere, / Where once they soar'd il...
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"This all-pervading, this all-conscious soul, / This particle of energy Divine, / Which travels Nature, flies from star to star, / And visits gods, and emulates their powers, / For ever is extinguish'd"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"In the coarse drudgeries and sinks of Sense, / Your souls have quite worn out the make of Heaven, / By vice new-cast, and creatures of your own."
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Date: 1744
"Can such a soul contract itself, to gripe / A point of no dimension, of no weight?"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: June, 1756
"But soul-rejoicing health again returns, / The blood meanders gentle in each vein, / The lamp of life renew'd with vigour burns, / And exil'd reason takes her seat again-- / Brisk leaps the heart, the mind's at large once more, / To love, to praise, to bless, to wonder and adore."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1759
"To Faith, and Reason, an impartial Friend, / He marks the Bounds, where they begin, and end; / Whilst he, to both, distinct Dominions gives, / Th'instructed Reader reasons, and believes."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1759
"Shun Comedies, where Scenes indecent stain / The youthful Mind, with Images obscene."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1759
"No further can the Reach of human Mind / Extend, like Ocean, to its Bounds confin'd."
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