Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"For to the brutes / Perception and the transient boons of sense / Hath fate imparted: but to man alone / Of sublunary beings was it given / Each fleeting impulse on the sensual powers / At leisure to review; with equal eye / To scan the passion of the stricken nerve / Or the vague object strikin...
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)
Date: 1745
"Imagination wanders far afield."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)