Date: 1723
"Say, can your Mind to Heav'n direct her Flight / In ardent Anhelations?"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1724
Shafts more subtile, may be darted from the Eye and "Thro' softer Hearts with silent Conquest fly"
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1724
"For Nature by fix'd Laws has wisely join'd / The bright Ideas of the conscious Mind / To Motions of the liquid spirit'ous Train, / Thro' previous Traces of the humid Brain; / These, when the Soul by drowsy Sleep oppress'd / Into her private Cell retires to Rest, / Thro' beaten Paths their wand'r...
preview | full record— Needler, Henry (1690-1718); Duncombe, William (1690-1769)
Date: 1725-6
"'Tis hard, he cries, to bring to sudden sight / Ideas that have wing'd their distant flight."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1726
"Whitening, the angry Billows rowl immense, / And roar their Terrors, thro' the shuddering Soul / Of feeble Man, amidst their Fury caught, / And, dash'd upon his Fate."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1726
"Society divine! Immortal Minds! / Still visit thus my Nights, for you reserv'd, / And mount my soaring Soul to Deeds like yours."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1726, 1753
"Love is a passion, by no rules confin'd, / The great first mover of the human mind"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1726, 1753
"But I have err'd; and, with delirious aim, / Would picture motion, and imprison flame. / He, who can light'ning's flash, to colours, bind, / May paint love's influence, on the burning mind."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1727
"The sad Idea of his murder'd Mate, / Struck from his Side by savage Fowler's Guile, / Across his Fancy comes; and then resounds / A louder Song of Sorrow through the Grove."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1727
"Passes the day illusive, and perplext, / As fleets the Vision o'er the formful Brain, / This Moment hurrying wild the impassion'd Soul, / The next in Nothing lost."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)