page 18 of 33     per page:
sorted by:

Date: 1747

"Tho' her bright Image, in his Breast he bears, / And all her Beauties in his Form appears; / Tho' in his Soul she lights her heav'nly Flame, / And finds even here a Votary in him."

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

preview | full record

Date: 1748

Thought is "The lover's heaven, or his hell."

— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)

preview | full record

Date: 1748

"His soul was fair, / Bright as the children of yon azure sheen!"

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)

preview | full record

Date: 1748

"O who can speak the vigorous joys of health! / Unclogg'd the body, unobscured the mind."

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)

preview | full record

Date: 1748

"Let godlike reason, from her sovereign throne, / Speak the commanding word 'I will!' and it is done."

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)

preview | full record

Date: 1733, 1748

"Where thou [Memory] art not, the cheerless human mind / Is one vast void, all darksome, sad, and blind; / No trace of anything remains behind."

— Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)

preview | full record

Date: 1749

Sin may mock "the' eraser's art" so that marks remain on the soul as a foul stain

— Wesley, John and Charles

preview | full record

Date: 1749

"In my heart Thy name reveal, / Stamp me with Thy Spirit's seal"

— Wesley, John and Charles

preview | full record

Date: 1749

"Wilt Thou not calm my troubled breast, [...] And stamp forgiveness on my heart?"

— Wesley, John and Charles

preview | full record

Date: 1749

"Force my conscience to receive it, / Pardon stamp'd upon my heart"

— Wesley, John and Charles

preview | full record

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.