Date: 1739

"But though self-int'rest follow virtue's train! / Yet selfish think not virtue's end is gain!"

— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)

Date: 1739

"In reason's light, eternal word, exprest, / Stamp'd with his image in the creature's breast"

— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)

Date: 1739

"In the pure splendor of substantial light, / The beam divine of Reason bless'd his sight."

— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)

Date: 1739

In prelapsarian times "the body, passive slave," did not dare "controul / The sov'reign mandates of the ruling soul"

— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)

Date: 1739

"The darkling soul scarce feels a glimm'ring ray, /Shrouded in sense from her immortal day"

— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)

Date: 1739

"Passions enslave, and servile cares oppress"

— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)

Date: 1739

"Fraud, rapine, murder, guilt's long horrid train, / Distracted nature's anarchy maintain."

— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)

Date: 1739

"But as the moon reflecting borrow'd day, /Sheds on our shadow'd world a feeble ray: /Some scatter'd beams of Reason law contains, /While Order's rule must be enforc'd by pains"

— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)