Date: 1748
"But here, instead, is foster'd every ill, / Which or distemper'd minds or bodies know."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
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
"Not Rome's sad Ruins such Impressions leave, / As Reason bury'd in the Body's Grave:"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1754
"For [Fancy], / The blue ethereal Arch expands; her Table / Spread out with all the Dainties of the Sky, / Imagination's rich Regale."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1755
If the "emanating mind" superior soars, virtue binds it with ties of reason
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Date: 1755
The "busy Statesman's mind" may grow putrid on the throne of power so that "Fresh vices spring up ev'ry hour; / As in dead corses serpents breed, / And loathsome, on corruption feed"
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: 1762
"'Rest thou,' I said, 'behind my shield; rest in peace, thou beam of light! the gloomy chief of Sora will fly, if Fingal's arm is like his soul."
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Date: w. 1739, 1762
"Ye pale Inhabitants of Night, / Before my intellectual Sight / In solemn Pomp ascend."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: w. 1739, 1762
Melancholy's "transient Forms like Shadows pass, / Frail Offspring of the magic Glass, / Before the mental Eye."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1763
"True Virtue means, let Reason use her eyes,Nothing with Fools, and Int'rest with the Wise."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)