Date: 1746
One's sires's "great soul" may respire in one's breast
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James
Date: 1746
"See other planets, suns, and systems roll, / And with celestial science-feast the soul,/ Low as the earth-ambition sinks again, / And what was thought a pleasure proves a pain."
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James
Date: 1746
"As age come on, and vigorous minds decay / All pleasures sicken, satiate, die away."
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James
Date: 1747
The soul may let in "the baneful poison of repeated sin" as the snuff-taker does snuff
preview | full record— Teft, Elizabeth (fl. 1741-7)
Date: 1747
The mind may be wounded
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)
Date: 1747
"Cease lovely Youth th' inchanting Sound, / Too deep already is the Wound; / Thro' all my Veins the Poison steals, / My Heart the dear Infection feels."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1747
"Lull'd by the dear bewitching Sound, / Each jarring Passion's charm'd to rest; / Yet my Soul feels a pleasing Wound, / And sweet Disorders fill my Breast."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1746; December 17, 1747 [actually January, 1748]
"O Pallas! Queen of ev’ry art / That glads the sense, or mends the heart, / Blest source of purer joys: / In ev’ry form of beauty bright, / That captivates the mental sight, / With pleasure and surprize!"
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1748
The [heart?] may be wounded and the wound may be secret
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)
Date: 1748
"When in the Hall of Smoke they congress hold, / And the sage berry, sun-burnt Mocha bears, / Has clear'd their inward eye: then, smoke-enroll'd, / Their oracles break forth mysterious as of old."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)