Date: 1729
"In my mind's Eye, I still enjoy thee here; / Still hold thee in my Heart, and in my Ear."
preview | full record— Carey, Henry (1687-1743)
Date: 1730
"Enlarge the Purlieu of my narrow Mind: / In Colours, plain, expose to Reason's Eye, / What, yet, to Reason Nature does deny"
preview | full record— Smedley, Jonathan (1671-1729)
Date: 1732
"With ev'ry Moment [Music] gives new Passions Birth"
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
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: 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: 1735
"What is the blooming Tincture of a Skin, / To Peace of Mind? To Harmony within?"
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1735-6
"Snatch'd by these wonders to that world where thought / Unfetter'd ranges, Fancy's magic hand / Led me anew o'er all the solemn scene, / Still in the mind's pure eye more solemn dress'd."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1735-6
"His mental eye first launch'd into the deeps of boundless ether; where unnumber'd orbs, / Myriads on myriads, through the pathless sky / Unerring roll, and wind their steady way."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1735-6
"In the soft plunder came that worst of plagues, / That pestilence of mind, a fever'd thirst / For the false joys which Luxury prepares."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1735-6
"See! the full board / That steams disgust, and bowls that give no joy; / No truth invited there, to feed the mind; / Nor wit, the wine-rejoicing reason quaffs."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)