Date: 1738
"While healthful Exercise the Mind unbends, / And Health and Study serve each other's Ends: / I view the happy School,--and thence presage / The fair Succession of a rising Age."
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1738
"Happy, he who can unbind / The Chains that clog the fetter'd Mind!"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1738, 1792
"But soon a beam, emissive from above, / Shed mental day, and touch'd the heart with love; / Gave jealous rage to know Divine Controul, / And ruled the tempest rising in the soul."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1738, 1792
"Love ... Give the soft sex to loathe inglorious rest, / String the weak arm, and steel the snowy breast!"
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: 1739
"He finds thy soft impression touch his breast, / He feels the God, and owns him unconfess'd!"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1739
"But come ye purer souls from dross refin'd, / The blameless heart and uncorrupted mind!"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1742
As an artist pours and extracts gold from a mold, "So virtuous Education forms the Mind, / And leaves for Life the beauteous Stamp behind!"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1742
"Where heav'nly Reason with her temperate Light, / Teaches th'unbiass'd Mind to judge aright / There Property secure enjoys her own; / There Conscience sits untroubl'd on her Throne"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1733, 1748
Memory is a "Surprising storehouse! in whose narrow womb / All things, the past, the present, and to come, / Find ample space, and large and mighty room."
preview | full record— Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)