Date: 1728
Exhausted Nature sinks a-while to Rest, / Still interrupted by disorder'd Dreams, / That o'er the sick Imagination rise, / And in black Colours paint the mimic Scene."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1728
"By whose fair Pencil is each Image wrought, / That teems to Birth, and burnishes to Thought?"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1731
"By whose fair Pencil is each Image wrought / That teems to Birth, and glitters into Thought"?
preview | full record— Travers, H. (f. 1730)
Date: 1733-1735
"Various rude Arts the untaught Ancients knew / To fix Ideas e'er they fled away, / And Images of Thought to Sight convey. / Brass, Wax, or Wood the Characters retain'd, / Some liv'd on Slates, and some the Canvas stain'd; / Some trac'd in Iv'ry, or engrav'd on Stone, / Or sunk in Clay, e're Bi...
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1734
"Aloft it soars through fields of painted air, / Which Fancy's pencil could not paint too fair."
preview | full record— Adam [Adams], Jean (1710-1765)
Date: 1735
"The Thinking Faculty, its source, its pow'rs: / How, stretch'd like Kneller's canvas first it lies / 'Ere the soft tints awake, or outlines rise / How, till the Finishing of thrice sev'n years, / The Master-Figure Reason scarce appears."
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1736, 1743
"Th' identick Shape thy Fancy would retain, / Engraven in eternal Characters / While Memory holds its Empire in the Brain."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
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: 1738
"The studious Eye, that runs [William's] Labours o'er, / Shall print his Image on the grateful Mind"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1744
"Nor dreadful our transition; though the mind, / An artist at creating self-alarms, / Rich in expedients for inquietude, / Is prone to paint it dreadful."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)