Date: 1752, 1791
"Life's records rise on ev'ry side, / And Conscience spreads those volumes wide; / Which faithful registers were brought / By pale-ey'd Fear and busy Thought. / Those faults which artful men conceal, / Stand here engrav'd with pen of steel, / By Conscience, that impartial scribe!"
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1753
Locke's "guiding Hand th'ideal Blank explores, / And opens wide the Senses' various Doors, / Thro' which the thronging Thoughts their Passage find, / In social Tribes, and stock the peopled Mind."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1753
"I teach true pleasures false ones to controul, / And warm the yielding heart, to stamp the mind"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: June 1753
"My hand, the secretary of my mind, / Leaves thee these lines upon the poplar's rind."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: w. April 25, 1737; 1753
"Gone, tho' she is, she left her soul behind, / In four dear transcripts of her copy'd mind."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1754
"Look in my face; and, could my heart lie bare, / The Father would be seen engraven there"
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1754, 1793
"All-perfect Wisdom, on each living soul, / Engrav'd this mandate, 'to preserve their frame, And hold entire the gen'ral orb of being.'"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1746, 1757
"Shall He, to God / Dear as his Eye and Heart, engraven there / Deep from Eternity; alone Belov'd, / Alone Begotten! say, shall He become / A Man of Grief--for Man?"
preview | full record— Thompson, William (bap. 1712, d.c. 1766)
Date: 1757-9
"[N]o Sentence so severe / As this, my Mind, much less my Paper, stains"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]
Date: 1761, 1790
If the mind is corporeal it must be composed of infinite parts: "Which then can claim dominion o'er the rest, / Or stamp the ruling passion in the breast"
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787); Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1706-1760)