Date: 1700
"The Lamp of Life burns dimly in my Breast, / Soon from its beating toil my weary Heart will rest."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1700, 1717
"He, tho' from Heav'n remote, to Heav'n cou'd move, / With Strength of Mind, and tread th' Abyss above; / And penetrate with his interior Light / Those upper Depths, which Nature hid from Sight"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1706
"There glides the moon her shining way, / And shoots my heart thro' with a silver ray."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"Just so the Head of Man contains within / The Intellect, with Rays and Light Divine."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"The Heart, the Center of the manly Breast, / Just like the Sun, in lovely Purple drest, / Diffuses all the Liquid Crimson round, / Whence Life, and Vigour, Heat and Strength abound."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"And as great Phoebus sometimes rages high, / And scorches with his Beams the sultry Sky: / So when the Heart with Rage, or flaming Ire, / Grows warm, or burns with Love's consuming Fire: / The catching Virals spread the Flames afar."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"Black Night comes on, and interrupts the Day, / E'er it can chase the Mists and Fogs away; / The Dregs of Flesh and Drossy Lees, o'errun / The Soul, and weigh the strugling Spirit down:"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1711
Popes, "Who, as erroneus, Nature's Light asperse; / The Judgment, which our Senses pass, reverse; / And by th' usurp'd Authority of Heav'n / Repeal the just Decrees by Reason given: / Who Schemes of new Religion have enjoined, / Impos'd Belief, enslav'd the free-born Mind, / And artful by the man...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1733-4
"Reason itself but gives it edge and pow'r; / As Heaven's blest beam turns vinegar more sowr"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1743
"Still spread a healing mist before the mind; / And lest we err by Wit's wild dancing light, / Secure us kindly in our native night."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)