Date: 1733, 1748
"Where thou [Memory] art not, the cheerless human mind / Is one vast void, all darksome, sad, and blind; / No trace of anything remains behind."
preview | full record— Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)
Date: 1754
"All these are Reason's Treasures, Stores of Thought; / Reflection's unexhausted Funds, replete / With Matter for her own delightful Task."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1766
"To stamp Fraternity on gen'rous hearts: [...] Celestial Charity to-night descends"
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Date: 1766
"Fancy leads the fetter'd senses / Captives to her fond controul; / Merit may have rich pretences, / But 'tis Fancy fires the soul."
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Date: 1763, 1767
"The guardian genius of his dawning thought, / Who wide disclos'd to wisdom's sacred ray / The eager inlets of his ample mind, / And pour'd upon each opening mental cell, / The virtue-forming scientific beam / With letter'd and religious radiance fill'd, / The fair expanses of his princely soul, ...
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1767, 1778
Science may "bid the soul her own rich funds employ, / Increase her treasures, and her wealth enjoy."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1792 [1794]
A wife chosen from "the coarse, what groveling brood" will be in thought "barren and in speech how rude"
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1792
"Howe'er on classic grounds they take defence; / Howe'er adroit their nostrums they dispense; / Impartially let loss and gain be tried, / And soon the balance Reason will decide."
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)