Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Of good and evil much, / And much of mortal man my thought revolv'd; / When starting full on fancy's gushing eye / The mournful image of Parthenia's fate, / That hour, o long belov'd and long deplor'd."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Hitherto the stores, / Which feed thy mind and exercise her powers, / Partake the relish of their native soil, / Their parent earth."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1745
"'Tis Pride, or Emptiness, applies the straw / That tickles little minds to mirth effuse; / Of grief approaching, the portentous sign!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1745
"That lies veiled from the eyes of our mind; and the great God hath not thought fit to throw so much light upon it, as to satisfy the anxious and inquisitive desires the soul hath to know it."
preview | full record— Mason, John (1706-1763)
Date: 1745
"For it is no real dishonour or fault in a man to have but a small ability of mind, provided be hath not the vanity to set up for a genius (which would be as ridiculous, as for a man of small strength and stature of body to set up for a champion), because this is what he cannot help."
preview | full record— Mason, John (1706-1763)
Date: 1745
"As in the humours of the body, so in the vices of the mind, there is one predominant which has an ascendant over us, and leads and governs us."
preview | full record— Mason, John (1706-1763)
Date: 1745
"The wounds of the conscience, like those of the body, cannot be well cured till they are searched to the bottom; and they cannot be searched without pain."
preview | full record— Mason, John (1706-1763)