Date: 1702
"Love join'd their Souls, and Heav'n seal'd each Heart"
preview | full record— Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701)
Date: 1702
"We'll think she brings with her Estate a Mind, / Pure as her Sterling, from it's Dross Refin'd."
preview | full record— Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701)
Date: 1705
"[W]e all, by Just Experience, find / Content is only seated in the Mind"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1715
"No crafty Machiavelian Arts possest / The pious Closets of his Royal Breast"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1718
"Then Hymen's sacred Bonds shall chain / My Heart to her fair Bosom, / There, while my Being does remain, / My Love more fresh shall blossom."
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1727
"Ned cou'd not well digest this Change, / Forc'd in the World at large to range; / With Babel's Monarch turn'd to grass, / Wou'd it not break an Heart of Brass?"
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1729
"Now, while my thought round nature's circle runs / (A bolder journey than the furious sun's) / This chief and satiating good to find / The attracting centre of the human mind"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1729
"E'en not all these, in one rich lot combined, / Can make the happy man, without the mind; / Where judgment sits clear-sighted, and surveys / The chain of reason with unerring gaze; / Where fancy lives, and to the brightening eyes, / His fairer scenes, and bolder figures rise; / Where social lov...
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1734
"Conscience hears / The words of anguish, and dissolves in tears. / Ev'n iron souls relent, and hearts of stone / Burst at these mournings, and repeat the groan:"
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1736, 1743
"But Care no Desert can exclude, / We haunt ourselves in Solitude."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)