Date: 1744
"These are the Exercises of the Understanding, and in these, as in a Chariot, the Soul takes the Air; while I am capable of these, I don't give myself much concern about bodily Decays, I am always at the Command of my Friends attend the Service of the House frequently, and distinguish myself in D...
preview | full record— Campbell, John (1708-75)
Date: 1744
"Eternity's vast ocean lies before thee; / There, there, Lorenzo, thy Clarissa sails. / Give thy mind sea-room; keep it wide of earth, / That rock of souls immortal; cut thy cord; / Weigh anchor; spread thy sails; call every wind; / Eye thy great Pole-star; make the land of life."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1745
"Let clear-ey'd reason at the helm preside, / Bear to the wind, or stem the furious tide: / Then mirth may urge when reason can explore, / This point the way, that waft us to the shore."
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1745
"Fancy and Sense from an infected shore, / Thy cargo bring; and pestilence the prize."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1745
"But hold, my Soul, / Thy steady Purpose--Tost by various Passions, / To this eternal Anchor keep--There is, / Can be, no Public without Private Virtue."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1746
"As gentle winds inflate the spreading sails," "so wealth and glory swell the Pride"
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James
Date: 1748, 1777
"And while the body is confined to one planet, along which it creeps with pain and difficulty; the thought can in an instant transport us into the most distant regions of the universe; or even beyond the universe, into the unbounded chaos, where nature is supposed to lie in total confusion."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: April 1750, 1791
"'Tis then, nor sooner, that the restless mind / Shall find itself at home; and like the ark / Fix'd on the mountain-top, shall look-aloft / O'er the vague passage of precarious life; / And, winds and waves and rocks and tempests past, / Enjoy the everlasting calm of Heav'n."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1751, 1777
"We may as well imagine, that minute wheels and springs, like those of a watch, give motion to a loaded wagon, as account for the origin of passion from such abstruse reflections."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1753
"Trembling, he sees the threatning tempest roll, / And ev'ry rising billow lifts his soul:"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)