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Date: 1734 [1735?]
"Some ruling Passion lurks in ev'ry Breast"
preview | full record— Paget, Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget (1689-1742)
Date: 1734, 1753
"Man, the deceiver, veils his cruel art, / And skreens himself within th' attempted heart; / There, to ungen'rous empire, climbs, e'er long, / Help'd by the confidence he means to wrong."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1734, 1753
"Were it a crime in flashing souls, to rise, / And strike each other thro' the meeting eyes; / Those op'ning windows had not let in light, / Nor stream'd ideas out, to voice the sight."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
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: 1733-4
"What if the head, the eye or ear repin'd / To serve mere engines to the ruling Mind?"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1734 [1735?]
"Whate'er we do, the Motive's much the same, / 'Tis Impulse governs, under Reason's Name; / Each eagerly some fav'rite End pursues, / And diff'rent Tempers furnish diff'rent Views."
preview | full record— Paget, Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget (1689-1742)
Date: 1734 [1735?]
"Slave to thy self, whilst Lord of all beside, / Surmount thy Weakness, or renounce thy Pride."
preview | full record— Paget, Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget (1689-1742)
Date: 1734 [1735?]
"We call that Judgment which is only Will, / And as we act, we learn to argue ill; / Like Bigots, who their various Creeds defend / By making Reason still to System bend."
preview | full record— Paget, Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget (1689-1742)
