Date: 1700
"Rack'd with my griefs, my Anxious Soul survives, / Dash'd like a ship which with the Billows drives."
preview | full record— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)
Date: 1700
"Whilst our own Will our Passions shall restrain, / He [Nassaw] gives us each an Empire where to Reign."
preview | full record— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)
Date: 1704
"To my warm Soul such deep Impression give,"
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)
Date: 1713-1714
"Who wrote all this--Who more than this designd / All fine impressions of Celestial mind."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1716
"If midst of Thoughts that crowd into thy Mind, / The Care of absent Friends a Place can find, / Retire a while from Warlike Noise and Throng / Into thy inmost Tent, and listen to my Song."
preview | full record— Monck [née Molesworth], Mary (1677?-1715)
Date: 1716
"My ravish'd Heart strait like a Bird of Prey / Stoop'd at the Lure; And thus my early Youth / Was by vain Thoughts bewildred and mis-led."
preview | full record— Monck [née Molesworth], Mary (1677?-1715)
Date: 1717
Horror may invade the mind
preview | full record— Dillon, Wentworth, 4th Earl of Roscommon (1637-1685)
Date: 1724
"Thy happy Fancy form'd the bright Design, / And crowding Thoughts with charming Numbers grac'd:"
preview | full record— Concanen, Matthew (1701-1749)
Date: March 13, 1727
"Must these like empty shadows pass, / Or forms reflected from a glass? / Or mere chimeras in the mind, / That fly, and leave no marks behind?"
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: March 13, 1727
"And is not virtue in mankind / The nutriment that feeds the mind; / Upheld by each good action past, / And still continued by the last?"
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)