Date: 1737
"Brave Souls when loos'd from this ignoble Chain / Of Clay, and sent to their own Heav'n again, / From Earth's gross Orb on Virtue's Pinions rise / In Æther wanton, and enjoy the Skies."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
"As in the greater World, aspiring Flame, / Earth, Water, Air, make the material Frame: / And thro' the Members a commanding Soul / Infus'd, directs the Motion of the Whole: / So 'tis in Man, the lesser World: the Case / Is Clay, unactive, and an earthly Mass: / But the Blood's Streams the ruli...
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
"Such were the high Endowments of her Mind, / (To Reason's Rule, her Passions still resign'd)."
preview | full record— Hughes, Jabez (1685-1731)
Date: 1737
"At Eyes alone our Beaus direct their art, / Nor know the nobler Conquest of the Heart."
preview | full record— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)
Date: 1737
"'Cou'd your Eyes penetrate my naked Breast, / 'There you might read these Characters engrav'd, / 'That, by your Virtues I am bound! inslav'd!"
preview | full record— Ogle, George (1704-1746)
Date: 1737
"[B]ut shall Quirps and Sentences, and those Paper-Bullets of the Brain frighten a Man from his Humour?"
preview | full record— Miller, James (1706-1744); Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Date: 1737
"Hence Wrath and Rage their ready Minds invade, / And Want could ev'ry Wickedness perswade."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
"'If passion once invade the female mind, / '(Tenacious sex!) in vain would mortal art / 'Wrench the warm weapon from the bleeding heart."
preview | full record— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)
Date: 1737
One may "grateful bow / To those benignant pow'rs, who fram'd thy mind / In crimes unfruitful, never to admit / The black impression of a guilty thought."
preview | full record— Glover, Richard (1712-1785)
Date: 1737
"Now one Impression in their Bosoms dwells, / Another when the Wind the Clouds dispels."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)