Date: 1744
"Life animal is nurtured by the sun; / Thrives on his bounties, triumphs in his beams. / Life rational subsists on higher food, / Triumphant in His beams who made the day."
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Date: 1744
"Read and revere the sacred page; a page / Where triumphs Immortality; a page / Which not the whole creation could produce; / Which not the conflagration shall destroy; / In Nature's ruins not one letter lost: / 'Tis printed in the minds of gods for ever."
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Date: 1744
"Reason is man's peculiar; Sense, the brute's. / The Present is the scanty realm of Sense; / The Future, Reason's empire unconfined."
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Date: 1744
"And what is Reason? Be she thus defined: / Reason is upright stature in the soul."
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Date: 1744
"That tyrant, Hope, mark how she domineers: / She bids us quit realities for dreams; / Safety and peace, for hazard and alarm: / That tyrant o'er the tyrants of the soul."
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Date: 1744
"Hope, like a cordial, innocent, though strong, / Man's heart at once inspirits and serenes."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1745
"Thrice shou'd Rebellion rear her Head, / With Front of Brass, but Heart of Lead"
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: October 1750, 1752, 1791
"The less the body to the view, / The soul (like springs in closer durance pent) / Is all exertion, ever new, / Unceasing, unextinguish'd, and unspent"
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Date: October 1750, 1752, 1791
"Still pouring forth executive desire, / As bright, as brisk, and lasting, as the vestal fire."
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Date: April 1750, 1791
"Hail, wond'rous Being, who in pow'r supreme / Exists from everlasting, whose great Name / Deep in the human heart, and every atom, / The Air, the Earth or azure Main contains, / In undecypher'd characters is wrote."
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