Date: 1724
"When all at once / A thousand anxious Thoughts that slept by Day, / Swarm'd in my Brain, 'till it resembled Hell, / Hot, dark and hot: my sick Imagination, / Assisted by the Shades of Night, would give / A gloomy turn to each Idea there."
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1724
"I cannot speak the rest--the Thought is Hell-- / How my Brain glows! now Reason keep thy Seat."
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1724
"[S]o with my Eyes open, and with my Conscience, as I may say, awake, I sinn'd, knowing it to be a Sin, but having no Power to resist; when this had thus made a Hole in my Heart, and I was come to such a height, as to transgress against the Light of my own Conscience, I was then fit for any Wicke...
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: Friday, July 31, 1724
"The true Use of Titles, is, That they may serve, as shining Lights, to lay open and illustrate, the spacious Chambers of a Mind well-furnished."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: Friday, July 31, 1724
"But, to a close, and sordid, Soul, they are like Torches, which we carry down, to illuminate a sickly Dungeon: Where they expose, but the more disgracefully, the narrow Cells, bare Walls; and Dirtiness."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: Monday, March 29, 1725.
"When the sable Sweep of Night, / Drowns Distinction from my Sight, / I no inward Darkness find; / You are Day-light, to my Mind."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1725
As when clouds disperse and restore the day, so may a "sudden flash" rush on the soul
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1726, 1753
"As fire, by nature, climbs direct, and bright, / And beams, in spotless rays, a shining light; / But if some gross obstruction stops its way, / Smokes in low curls, and scents the sullied day: / So love, itself, untainted, and refin'd, / Borrows a tincture, from the colour'd mind."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1726, 1753
"Boundless desire, aw'd hope, and doubtful joy, / Stormy, by turns, the veering heart employ; / Sick'ning, in fancy's sun-shine, now, we faint, / And licence wounds us deeper, than restraint."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1728
"A Lover, when he is admitted to Cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the Motions of his Mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he shou'd be the Shadow of her Mind."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)