Date: 1729
"E'en not all these, in one rich lot combined, / Can make the happy man, without the mind; / Where judgment sits clear-sighted, and surveys / The chain of reason with unerring gaze; / Where fancy lives, and to the brightening eyes, / His fairer scenes, and bolder figures rise; / Where social lov...
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1748, 1754
"He will learn to transfer the Numbers of Poetry to the Harmony of the Mind, and of well-governed Passions."
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)