Date: 1743
"We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile: / The mind turns fool before the cheek is dry. / Our quick-returning folly cancels all; / As the tide rushing rases what is writ / In yielding sands, and smooths the letter'd shore."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1743
"When Reason doubtful, like the Samian letter, / Points him two ways, the narrower is the better."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1744
"Read and revere the sacred page; a page / Where triumphs Immortality; a page / Which not the whole creation could produce; / Which not the conflagration shall destroy; / In Nature's ruins not one letter lost: / 'Tis printed in the minds of gods for ever."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"What wealth in senses such as these! What wealth / In Fancy fired to form a fairer scene / Than Sense surveys! in Memory's firm record!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1746, 1749
"Such Rancour this, of such a poisonous Vein, / As never, never, shall my Paper stain: / Much less infect my Heart"
preview | full record— Francis, Philip (1708-1773)
Date: 1746
"So books, not well digested, blot the mind, / But make us - in search of wisdom - blind"
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James
Date: 1748
"But should some swain more skillful than the rest, / his name on this cold marble breast, / Not rolling ages could deface that name."
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)
Date: 1733, 1748
"Still let my faithful Memory impart, / And deep engrave it on my grateful heart, / How just, and good, and excellent Thou art."
preview | full record— Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)