Date: 1736
"Infuse a little Wit into the Scull, / Which never fails to make a mighty Fool; / Two Drams of Faith; a Tun of Doubting next; / Let all be with the Dregs of Reason mixt: / When, in his Mind, these jarring Seeds are sown, / He'll censure all Things, but approve of none."
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1737
"Whatever fancy paints, invention pours, / Judgment digests, the well tuned bosom feels, / Truth natural, moral, or divine, has taught, / The virtues dictate, or the Muses sing."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1737
"As Years advance, th'abated Soul in most / Sinks to low Ebb, in second Childhood lost;"
preview | full record— Hughes, Jabez (1685-1731)
Date: 1739
"Faint is the lesson reason's rules impart: / [Drama] pours it strong and instant through the heart"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1739
"O that I as a little Child / May follow Thee, nor ever rest / Till sweetly Thou hast pour'd thy mild / And lowly Mind into my Breast."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1740
"The quiet of Our mind destroys, / Or with a full spring-tide of joys, / Or a dead-ebb of grief. "
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1742
"Had thought been all, sweet speech had been denied; / Speech, thought's canal! speech, thought's criterion too!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"'Tis thought's exchange which, like the' alternate push / Of waves conflicting, breaks the learned scum, / And defecates the student's standing pool."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"Beware the counterfeit: in Passion's flame / Hearts melt; but melt like ice, soon harder froze."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"I wake, emerging from a sea of dreams / Tumultuous; where my wreck'd desponding thought, / From wave to wave of fancied misery, / At random drove, her helm of reason lost."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)