Date: 1724, 1755
The mind is a soil that must be cultivated; left fallow "an hateful crop succeeds"
preview | full record— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)
Date: 1726, 1775
"Thro' ev'ry tender tube they rove, / In finer spirits strike the brain; / Wind quick thro' ev'ry fibrous grove, / And seek, thro' pores, the heart again."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1727, 1787
"Oak was his heart, his breast with steel / Thrice mail'd, that first the brittle keel / Committed to the murtherous deep."
preview | full record— Welsted, Leonard (1688-1747)
Date: 1731, 1753
"Shines there a captain, form'd, for war's controul, / Born, with the seeds of conquest, in his soul?"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1733-4
"As fruits ungrateful to the planter's care / On savage stocks inserted learn to bear; / The surest Virtues thus from Passions shoot, / Wild Nature's vigor working at the root."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1734
"While Gold will make their Minds to bow, / As Fire doe's green Wood, any how."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1734
"Grant but as many sorts of mind, as Moss."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1734
"Tis Education forms the vulgar mind: / Just as the Twig is bent, the Tree's inclin'd."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1733-4
"Th' Eternal Art educing good from ill, / Grafts on this Passion our best principle: / 'Tis thus the Mercury of Man is fix'd, / Strong grows the Virtue with his nature mix'd."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1735
"And if such dormant Reason bears no fruit, / Dead in the branch, tho' real at the root, / Defect and actual Ignorance are one,"
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)