Date: 1702-1713, 1989
"The tyrant passions tread fair meritt down / & their proud thrones erect above the crown"
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: w. 1702-1713
"Loos'd from ye chains of flesh his freer mind / Rose up to sacred love, / To perfect saint or seraphim refin'd, / Quitting his lump of clay, / As subtle spirits fume away / Loos'd from their earth they upward mount, they flye, / They light, they shine, & blaze along the skye."
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Date: 1714
"[F]oul Reproches ignominious Stain, / Sate deep engraven in his fearfull Heart,"
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Nestor Ironside
Date: 1714
"What iron Breast so hard that can endure / To work such Spight on Vertuous Innocence?"
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Nestor Ironside
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: 1714
In the afterlife, "each Soul must drink long Draughts / Of those forgetful Streams."
preview | full record— Evans, Abel (1679-1737)
Date: 1714
The Soul returns "Naked from off this Beach and perfect Blank, / To visit the New World"
preview | full record— Evans, Abel (1679-1737)
Date: 1714
"For if vast Thoughts shou'd play about a Mind / Inclos'd in Flesh, and dregging cumbrous Life, / Fluttering and beating in the mournful Cage, / It soon wou'd break its Grates and wing away."
preview | full record— Evans, Abel (1679-1737)
Date: 1714
The Soul returns "Naked from off this Beach and perfect Blank, / To visit the New World."
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Date: 1714
"Storms of neighbouring Atoms tear the Soul"
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