Date: 1746, 1749
"For the hurt Eye an instant Cure you find; Then why neglect, for Years, the sickening Mind?"
preview | full record— Francis, Philip (1708-1773)
Date: September 27, 1746
"Painful reflection! poyson to my mind!"
preview | full record— Hervey, John, second Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696-1743)
Date: 1752
"Worse than the other--Whom, thus robb'd of Pow'r. / His former Passions fatally devour!"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1752
"Well! does that make you wise, / Or open on your Follies, Reason's Eyes!"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1757-9
"To Gold yields Silver, and to Virtue Gold, / If Reason's Hand th'impartial Balance hold."
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]
Date: 1758
"It is scandalous, that he who sweetens his Drink by the Gifts of the Bees, should, by Vice, embitter Reason, the Gift of the Gods."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1758
"They who have a good Constitution of Body, support Heats and Colds: and so they, who have a right Constitution of Soul, bear [the Attacks of] Anger, and Grief, and immoderate Joy, and the other Passions."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1758
"It is more necessary for the Soul to be cured, than the Body: for it is better to die, than to live ill."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1759, 1761
"To her mind's eye a thousand ghosts appear, / The foolish apparitions of her fear."
preview | full record— Fawkes, Francis (1720-1777); Menander (342-291 B.C.)
Date: 1761, 1790
"Our reason judges better than our eyes"
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787); Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1706-1760)