Date: 1735
"Her lovely Mind shines chearful thro' her Face, / A sacred Lamp in a fair Crystal Case."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1735
"God gave us Reason as the Stars were giv'n, / Not to discard the Sun, but mark out Heav'n."
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1735
"Reason at most, but imitates the Sun, / To each is various, and to All is one"
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1735
"Thro' the dark Void ev'n gleams of Truth can shoot, / And love of Liberty upheave at root."
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1735
"Sensation first, the groundwork of the whole, / Deals ray by ray each image to the soul."
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1735
"And, Reason rises, the Newtonian Sun, / Moves all, guides all, and all sustains in one."
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1737
"When the luxuriant Ardour of his Youth / Succeeding Years had tam'd to better Growth, / And seem'd to break the Body's Crust away, / To give th'expanded Mind more Room to play; / Which, in its Evening, open'd on the Sight / Surprizing Beams of full Meridian Light, / As thrifty of its Splendor it...
preview | full record— Hughes, Jabez (1685-1731)
Date: 1738, 1792
"But soon a beam, emissive from above, / Shed mental day, and touch'd the heart with love; / Gave jealous rage to know Divine Controul, / And ruled the tempest rising in the soul."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"The darkling soul scarce feels a glimm'ring ray, /Shrouded in sense from her immortal day"
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1739
"But as the moon reflecting borrow'd day, /Sheds on our shadow'd world a feeble ray: /Some scatter'd beams of Reason law contains, /While Order's rule must be enforc'd by pains"
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)