Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"He too beholding in the sacred light / Of his essential reason, all the shapes / Of swift contingence, all successive ties / Of action propagated through the sum / Of possible existence, he at once, / Down the long series of eventful time, / So fix'd the dates of being, so dispos'd, / To every l...
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Nor only by the warmth / And soothing sunshine of delightful things, / Do minds grow up and flourish."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Oft misled / By that bland light, the young unpractis'd views / Of reason wander through a fatal road, / Far from their native aim."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Vehement and swift / As lightening fires the aromatic shade / In Æthiopian fields, the stripling felt / Her inspiration catch his fervid soul, / And starting from his languor thus exclaim'd."
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Date: 1773
"While others,--consecrate to higher aims, / Whose hallowed bosoms glow with purer flames, / Love in their heart, persuasion in their tongue,-- / With words of peace shall charm the listening throng, / Draw the dread veil that wraps the' eternal throne, / And launch our souls into the bright unkn...
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1774
"From sense abstracted, some, with arduous flight, / Explore the realms of intellectual light."
preview | full record— Scott, Mary [later Taylor] (1751/2-1793)
Date: 1788
"'Tis ever Nature's gen'rous view; / Great minds should noble ends pursue; / As the clear sun-beam, when most bright, / Warms, in proportion to its light."
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1788
"Ye! who can selfish cares forego, / To pity those which others know; / As Light, that from its centre strays, / To glad all Nature with its rays; / Oh! ease the pangs ye stoop to share, / And rescue millions from despair!"
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)