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Date: 1734
"Too strait the mansion for th'illustrious guest."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1734
"Hail, holy souls, no more confin'd / To limbs and bones that clog the mind; / Ye have escap'd the snares, and left the chains behind."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1734
"We see and feel these limbs, and this flesh of ours; we are acquainted at least with the outside of this animal machine, and sometimes call it ourselves, though philosophy and reason would rather say, it is our house or tabernacle, because we possess it, or dwell in it: it is our en...
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1734
"A surprising Phænomenon of nature is this, that the soul of man, which ranges abroad though the heavens, and the earth, and the deep waters, and unfolds a thousand mysteries of nature, which penetrates the systems of stars and suns, worlds upon worlds, should be so unhappy a stranger at home, an...
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1741
"[F]ly for ever from my Sight, lest I stamp Deformity on every Limb, and make thy Body as hideous as thy Soul"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1744
"A serious mind is the native soil of every virtue, and the single character that does true honour to mankind."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"Reason progressive, Instinct is complete: / Swift Instinct leaps; slow Reason feebly climbs."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"Men perish in advance, as if the sun / Should set ere noon, in eastern oceans drown'd; / If fit, with dim ILLUSTRIOUS to compare, / The sun's meridian with the soul of man."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"Why, to be good in vain, is man betray'd? / Betray'd by traitors lodged in his own breast, / By sweet complacencies from Virtue felt?"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"Or if blind Instinct (which assumes the name / Of sacred Conscience) plays the fool in man, / Why Reason made accomplice in the cheat?"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
