Date: 1705, 1712
"[W]ise Men on sound Reason ground Belief: / How that they find what for the Soul is good, / As by their Smell and Taste they judge their Food; / For who but each Man's Reason ought to try / 'Tis Faith, who must be sav'd or damn'd thereby."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"Reflection is the last and greatest Bliss: / When turning backwards with inverted Eyes, / The Soul it self and all its Charms, surveys, / The deep Impressions of Coelestial Grace / And Image of the Godhead."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710
Honour is a "Maggot that infects the giddy Brains / Of Cowards, Foold, rich Knaves, and Curtizans"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1735, 1745
"No; not as Men / Each other see; but with Angelick Ken, / With the Mind's Eye. Ev'n to Corporeal Sight, / With Emanations of transcendent Light, / He who is God, as well as Man, shall shine; / His glorious Body darting Rays divine"
preview | full record— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)
Date: 1773
"What tho' no Sounds should penetrate the Ear,-- / To list'ning Thought the Voice of Truth is clear."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773
"His Wounds are healing, and His Griefs give Ease; / He, like a true Physician of the Soul, / Applies the Med'cine that may make it whole."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)