Date: 1746
"As age come on, and vigorous minds decay / All pleasures sicken, satiate, die away."
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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."
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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)
Date: 1748
"But more he search'd the mind, and roused from sleep / Those moral seeds whence we heroic actions reap."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1748
"But here, instead, is foster'd every ill, / Which or distemper'd minds or bodies know."
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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:"
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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
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel