Date: 1743
"Th'all-rev'renc'd Leader call'd a wily Mind, [...] Now, stript and naked, skimm'd th'eternal Space, / Anxious for Office, and in Wait, for Place."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1745
"Drink early then, my Friend, at Reason's Bowl, / And fill with wholesome Draughts thy youthful Soul. / If Wine or Gall the Recent Vessel stains, / Each Scent alike the faithful Cask retains."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1746
"In ev'ry science, myst'ry, form, and art / Betrays the mask, and shows the double heart"
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James
Date: 1746
Man may be sway'd by his passions and employ his reason as "the sly pimp and pander of his joys"
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James
Date: 1746
"As age come on, and vigorous minds decay / All pleasures sicken, satiate, die away."
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James
Date: 1748
Thought is "The lover's heaven, or his hell."
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: 1748
"His soul was fair, / Bright as the children of yon azure sheen!"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1748
"O who can speak the vigorous joys of health! / Unclogg'd the body, unobscured the mind."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)