Date: 1737
"Whatever fancy paints, invention pours, / Judgment digests, the well tuned bosom feels, / Truth natural, moral, or divine, has taught, / The virtues dictate, or the Muses sing."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1738
"The studious Eye, that runs [William's] Labours o'er, / Shall print his Image on the grateful Mind"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1767, 1784
"Shall we, because we strive in vain to tell / How Matter acts on incorporeal Mind, / Or how, when sleep has lock'd up ev'ry sense, / Or fevers rage, Imagination paints / Unreal scenes, reject what sober sense, / And calmest thought attest?"
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1771
"Great Nature! workmanship divine, / What human thought can trace thy line!"
preview | full record— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)