Date: 1742
Judgement may assume "her Seat, the Mind"
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1742
"My soul is dead, my heart is stone, / A cage of birds and beasts unclean, / A den of thieves, a dire abode / Of dragons, but no house of God."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1743
"In that dread Moment, how the frantick Soul / Raves round the Walls of her Clay Tenement, / Runs to each Avenue, and shrieks for Help, / But shrieks in vain!"
preview | full record— Blair, Robert (1699-1746)
Date: 1743
A disembodied mind may "In Fleury's brainy Cells, [its] Entrance hide: / Heedful attend, where Thought's dim Embryos lie: / Fan the speck'd Fire--but bend its Flame awry.
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1746
The Sisters "Silence, and Contemplation" may "with eternal beauties deck the mind"
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Date: 1747
"Stupendous truths! here human wisdom fails, / Lost in a labyrinth of endless thought"
preview | full record— Gilbert, Thomas (bap. 1713, d. 1766)
Date: 1748
Thought is "The hermit's solace in his cell"
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: 1733, 1748
Memory is a "Surprising storehouse! in whose narrow womb / All things, the past, the present, and to come, / Find ample space, and large and mighty room."
preview | full record— Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)
Date: 1749
"Open a window in our breast, / That each our heart may see"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1753
Man stole the "Mimic Arts at first from Heav'n ... To fill the fairest Mansions of the Soul"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)