Date: 1733
Sights may be perform'd, "illusive scene! / By magick lantern of the spleen"
preview | full record— Green, Matthew (1696-1737) [pseud. Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford]
Date: 1733, 1742
"I take the Mind or Soul of Man not to be so perfectly indifferent to receive all Impressions, as a Rasa Tabula, or white Paper."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1733
"[M]eeting virtues" may be "perfectly imprest / On sacred Sheets, in thy Ethereal Breast"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733
"Such is Clemene, when her Mind / Is to invading Grief resign'd."
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733
"One beauteous Form has struck upon the Mind, / A sweet Impression, casual, or design'd."
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733
"The deep Impression in my Soul was made, / When first I listen'd in the Jess'min Shade."
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733
"Th' instructive Theme is wrought with so much Art, / I'll wear the golden Precepts in my Heart."
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733
"Content is grown a Stranger to my Breast"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733
"The thinking Sculpture helps to raise / Deep thoughts, the Genii of the place: / To the minds ear, and inward sight, / There silence speaks, and shade gives light:"
preview | full record— Green, Matthew (1696-1737) [pseud. Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford]
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)