Date: 1718
"Black Guilt involves the World in horrid Night, / And clouds our Intellectual Sight."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: c. 1718 [published 1907]
"My mind like Telephus's hurt is found. */ The cause that gave can only Cure the wound."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1723
"But turn the Tables and reflect, / All may not be, that you suspect: / By the Mind's Eye, the Horns, we mean, / Are only in Ideas seen, / 'Tis from the inside of the Head / Their Branches shoot, their Antlers spread; / Fruitful Suspicions often bear them, / You feel 'em from the Time you fear 'em."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1723
"Does thy Soul sicken, while thy Body's sound?"
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1726, 1753
"Small is the soul's first wound, from beauty's dart, / And scarce th' unheeded fever warms the heart."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1727
"Some, with a dry and barren Brain, / Poor Rogues! like costive Lap-Dogs strain; / While others with a Flux of Wit, / The Reader and their Friends besh**t."
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1728
"Or canst Thou judge, by partial Passion blind?"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1729
"In my mind's Eye, I still enjoy thee here; / Still hold thee in my Heart, and in my Ear."
preview | full record— Carey, Henry (1687-1743)
Date: 1729
"Above, beneath, across, around, [fantastic lightnings] fly! / A dire deception strikes the mental eye!"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
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]