Date: 1735
"Imagination, Fancy, and Invention, they are wholly Strangers to, nor have any Words in their Language by which those Ideas can be expressed; the whole Compass of their Thoughts and Mind, being shut up within the two forementioned Sciences"
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1735
"God gave us Reason ... A faithful guide to comfort and to save, / Till the mind floats, like Peter on the wave."
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1736
"Awake, great Common Sense, and sleep no more, / Look to thy self; for then, when I was slain, / Thy self was struck at."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1736
"PAULTONS affords me next a kind Retreat, / Where crowding Joys my grateful Heart dilate"
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1736
"A thousand Pleasures crowd into his Breast."
preview | full record— Fitzgerald, Thomas (1695-1752)
Date: 1736
"As she was one day sitting alone in her Garden, ruminating on the last Words of her Father, and the strict Injunction laid on her concerning the Carcanet, Emotions, to which hitherto she had been a Stranger, began to diffuse themselves throughout her Mind."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1736, 1737, 1759, 1744, 1771, 1773
"Female youth, left to weak woman's care" are "Strangers to reason and reflection made, / Left to their passions, and by them betrayed; / Untaught the noble end of glorious truth, / Bred to deceive even from earliest youth; / Unused to books, nor virtue taught to prize; / Whose mind, a savage was...
preview | full record— Ingram, Anne [née Howard; other married name Douglas], Viscountess Irwin (c. 1696-1764)
Date: 1737
"Souls for ever live: / But often their old Habitations leave, / To dwell in new; which them, as Guests, receive."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
"Confounded with the Crowd of various Thoughts, / And stiff'ning with Amaze, the Hero stood, / In Silence deep."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
"Vain Wretch! Ambition fires his Breast, / Impetuous, dire, tormenting Guest!"
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)