Date: 1734 [1735?]
"We call that Judgment which is only Will, / And as we act, we learn to argue ill; / Like Bigots, who their various Creeds defend / By making Reason still to System bend."
preview | full record— Paget, Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget (1689-1742)
Date: 1734 [1735?]
"Customs or Int'rests govern all Mankind, / Some Biass cleaves to the unguarded Mind; / Thro' this, as in a false or flatt'ring Glass / Things seem to change their Natures as they pass."
preview | full record— Paget, Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget (1689-1742)
Date: 1735, 1792
"Around their queen attendant spirits watch, / Each rising thought with prompt observance catch, / The tidings of internal passion spread, / And thro' each part the swift contagion shed"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1735, 1792
[Allegories of taste, smell, sound, and vision.]
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1735, 1792
" Thro' nature traffick on, from pole to pole, / And stamp new worlds on thy dilated soul"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1735, 1792
"'O why of these thy bounteous goods bereft, / 'And only to interior Reason left?"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1735, 1792
"Whence either pulmonary lobe expires, / And all the interior subtile breath retires; / Subsiding lungs[6] their labouring vessels press, / Affected mutual with severe distress, / While towards the left their confluent torrents gush, / And on the heart's sinister cavern rush;"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"Though Fancy under Reason's lash may fall, / Yet Fancy in Religion's all in all"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1778
" In thee, by art, the demon stands confest, / But nature on thy soul has stamped the god."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1787
"The shield, an emblem of thy soul, displays / Truth, equity and wisdom, hand in hand."
preview | full record— Glover, Richard (1712-1785)