Date: 1703
"The light of the Sun is not more grateful to our outward sense, than the light of truth is to the soul."
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Date: 1730
"No light the darkness of that mind invades, / Where Chaos rules, enshrin'd in genuine Shades;"
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1730
A "mimic gleam of transient light" may break through the gloom of dullness "and then they think they write"
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)