Date: 1788-89
"The former [Platonic philosophy] fills the soul with intelligible light, breaks her lethargic fetters, and elevates her to the principle of things; the latter [Lockean philosophy] clouds the intellectual eye of the soul, by increasing her oblivion, strengthens her corporeal bands, and hurries he...
preview | full record— Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835)
Date: 1792
Light may break in and great ideas may dawn upon the mind
preview | full record— Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813); Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1799
"Oh thou, our Father above, who surveyest the whole world with one glance, diffuse thy light into our hearts!"
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)