Date: 1735
"Her lovely Mind shines chearful thro' her Face, / A sacred Lamp in a fair Crystal Case."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1735
"God gave us Reason as the Stars were giv'n, / Not to discard the Sun, but mark out Heav'n."
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1735
"Reason at most, but imitates the Sun, / To each is various, and to All is one"
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1735
"Thro' the dark Void ev'n gleams of Truth can shoot, / And love of Liberty upheave at root."
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1735
"Sensation first, the groundwork of the whole, / Deals ray by ray each image to the soul."
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1735
"And, Reason rises, the Newtonian Sun, / Moves all, guides all, and all sustains in one."
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1737
"When the luxuriant Ardour of his Youth / Succeeding Years had tam'd to better Growth, / And seem'd to break the Body's Crust away, / To give th'expanded Mind more Room to play; / Which, in its Evening, open'd on the Sight / Surprizing Beams of full Meridian Light, / As thrifty of its Splendor it...
preview | full record— Hughes, Jabez (1685-1731)
Date: 1738, 1739
"For tho' right Reason should her Beams display, / And dart new Lustre on our clouded Way; / Unless Philosophy, with antient Strength, / Support her Empire to Life's utmost Length; / Unless, in Passion's Spite, we dare be free, / (What Few have been, and Few will ever be) / That pristine Turn, th...
preview | full record— Bancks, John (1709-1751)
Date: 1738, 1739
"Reason, like Virtue, comes but with her Shade."
preview | full record— Bancks, John (1709-1751)
Date: 1739
"Fill our whole Souls with heav'nly Light, / Melt with Seraphick Fire."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles