Date: 1732
"With ev'ry Moment [Music] gives new Passions Birth"
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1732
"While healthful Exercise the Mind unbends, / And Health and Study serve each others Ends: / I view the happy School,--and thence presage / The glorious Harvest of a rising Age."
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1733
"The thinking Sculpture helps to raise / Deep thoughts, the Genii of the place: / To the minds ear, and inward sight, / There silence speaks, and shade gives light:"
preview | full record— Green, Matthew (1696-1737) [pseud. Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford]
Date: 1733, 1777
"Instead of hallow'd hill, or vocal vale, / Or stream, sweet-echoing to the tuneful tale; / Damp dens confin'd, or barren desarts spread, / Which spectres haunted, and the muses fled; / Ruins in pensive emblem seem'd to rise, / And all was dark, or wild, to Fancy's eyes."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1733-4
"It is therefore in the Anatomy of the Mind as in that of the Body; more good will accrue to mankind by attending to the large, open, and perceptible parts, than by studying too much such finer nerves and vessels, the conformations and uses of which will for ever escape our observation."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1733-4
"So, cast and mingled with his very frame, / The mind's disease, its ruling passion came: / Each vital humour which should feed the whole, / Soon flows to this, in body and in soul."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1733-4
"She but removes weak passions for the strong: / So, when small humors gather to a gout, / The doctor fancies he has driv'n them out."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1734
"No; only he, who gave the blind their Sight, / Can fix interiour Eyes on heavenly Light"
preview | full record— Adam [Adams], Jean (1710-1765)
Date: 1734 [1735?]
"Error that great Distemper of the Mind, / Hard to be cur'd, because 'tis hard to find; / So mixt and blended with our very Frame, / It lurks secure, and borrows Reason's Name."
preview | full record— Paget, Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget (1689-1742)