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Date: 1704
"Those Ancient Men of Genius who rifled Nature by the Torch-Light of Reason even to her very Nudities, have been run a-ground in this unknown Channel; the Wind has blown out the Candle of Reason, and left them all in the Dark."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1706
"There glides the moon her shining way, / And shoots my heart thro' with a silver ray."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1709, 1810
"I've a mighty part within / That the world hath never seen, / Rich as Eden's happy ground, / And with choicer plenty crown'd: / Here on all the shining boughs / Knowledge fair and useful grows; / On the same young flow'ry tree / All the seasons you may see; / Notions in the bloom of light, / Jus...
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
