Date: 1730
"Down from her Chariot light-wing'd Fancy flew, / And o'er him, loose, her Starry Mantle threw."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1733-4
"Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; / Reason's comparing balance rules the whole."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1734
"I'm in a raging storm, / Where seas and skies are blended, while my soul / Like some light worthless chip of floating cork / Is tost from wave to wave."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1735, 1763
"'Midst foreign objects not employ'd to roam, / Thought, sadly active, still corrodes at home."
preview | full record— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)
Date: 1737
"As Years advance, th'abated Soul in most / Sinks to low Ebb, in second Childhood lost; / And feeble Age, dishonouring our Kind, / Robs all the Treasures of the wasted Mind"
preview | full record— Hughes, Jabez (1685-1731)
Date: 1744
"Yet still, through their disgrace [the passions'], no feeble ray / Of greatness shines, and tells us whence they fell: / But these (like that fallen monarch [Adam] when reclaim'd) / When Reason moderates the rein aright, / Shall re-ascend, remount their former sphere, / Where once they soar'd il...
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Passion's fierce illapse / Rouzes the mind's whole fabric; with supplies / Of daily impulse keeps the elastic powers / Intensely poiz'd, and polishes anew / By that collision all the fine machine: / Else rust would rise, and foulness, by degrees / Incumbering, choak at last what heaven design'd ...
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1745
"A soul in commerce with her God is heaven; / Feels not the tumults and the shocks of life; / The whirls of passions, and the strokes of heart."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)