Date: 1734, 1753
"Love's generous warmth does reason's pow'r display, / And fills desire, as light embodies day."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
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: 1736
"Dreams were the only Work of a disturb'd Fancy, and were as far from Truth, as the Glow-Worm's dim Shine from Light and Heat; the Creatures of the drowsy Brain."
preview | full record— Chetwood, William Rufus (d. 1766)
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: January 29, 1737
"Nay, the Light of Reason, which we so much boast of, what is it but a Dark-Lanthorn, which just serves to keep us from running our Nose against a Post, perhaps; but is no more able to lead us out of the dark Mists of Error and Ignorance, in which we are lost, than an Ignis fatuus would be to co...
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)