Date: 1731
Heaven stamped perfection on Caroline's mind
preview | full record— Pilkington, Matthew (1701-1774)
Date: 1734, 1735
"The Mind, in peaceful Solitude, has Room / To range in Thought, and ramble far from home."
preview | full record— Barber, Mary (c.1685-1755)
Date: 1735, 1792
"Around their queen attendant spirits watch, / Each rising thought with prompt observance catch, / The tidings of internal passion spread, / And thro' each part the swift contagion shed"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1735, 1792
[Allegories of taste, smell, sound, and vision.]
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1735, 1792
" Thro' nature traffick on, from pole to pole, / And stamp new worlds on thy dilated soul"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1735, 1792
"'O why of these thy bounteous goods bereft, / 'And only to interior Reason left?"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1735, 1792
"Whence either pulmonary lobe expires, / And all the interior subtile breath retires; / Subsiding lungs[6] their labouring vessels press, / Affected mutual with severe distress, / While towards the left their confluent torrents gush, / And on the heart's sinister cavern rush;"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
Dictates have "his care on ev'ry mind impress'd, / The conscious seals the hand of Heav'n attest!"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
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)