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Date: 1728 (1733)
"Thus does that Great Man, with a Noble Elevation of Soul, teach his Disciples what he properly was, not the Body, which they were soon to see a lifeless Carcase, but the Mind, which after the Poyson should stop the Motions of his Earthly Machine, would strait go off to inhabit the Mansions of th...
preview | full record— Campbell, Archibald (1691-1756)
Date: 1728 (1733)
"And I cannot but here take Notice, that if Instinct shall be supposed to be the Spring of Benevolence, one must necessarily conceive that the Author of Nature would have certainly laid it in the Human Mind, with so commanding a Turn towards himself, that if it exerted it self in any Case, it sho...
preview | full record— Campbell, Archibald (1691-1756)
Date: 1729
"Oh, let not the soft, penetrating plague / Creep on the freeborn mind! and working there, / With the sharp tooth of many a new-form'd want, / Endless, and idle all, eat out the heart / Of liberty; the high conception blast; / The noble sentiment, the impatient scorn / Of base subjection, and the...
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1729
"Induced at last, by scarce perceived degrees, / Sapping the very frame of government, / And life, a total dissolution comes; / Sloth, ignorance, dejection, flattery, fear."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1729
"Now, while my thought round nature's circle runs / (A bolder journey than the furious sun's) / This chief and satiating good to find / The attracting centre of the human mind"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1729
"Then the good easy man, whom reason rules; / Rouz'd by bold insult, and injurious rage, / With sharp, and sudden check, th' astonish'd sons / Of violence confounds; firm as his cause, / His bolder heart; in awful justice clad; / His eyes effulging a peculiar fire: / And, as he charges thro' the ...
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: January 29, 1729
"Still Favourites of these conquering Eyes, / 'gainst whom no Heart's defended."
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1729
"Souls, of your Stamp, can pity and protect, / And gather Fame from other Men's Neglect"
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1729
"So shall not Death, with an unfriendly Frown, / Inglorious, throw thy ruin'd Cottage down"
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1729
"Reason exerts her pure, celestial, Rays, / To guide our Steps thro' Errors weary Maze: / But upstart Passions mount her rightful Throne, / And blindly push our vanquish'd Judgment on."
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
