Date: 1715-1720
"This strong and ruling Faculty was like a powerful Planet, which in the Violence of its Course, drew all things within its Vortex."
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Date: 1717, 1736
"As into air the purer spirits flow, / And sep'rate from their kindred dregs below; / So flew the soul to its congenial place"
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Date: 1727
"But each Man's secret Standard in his Mind, / That casting Weight, Pride adds to Emptiness"
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Date: 1728
"Gold is the Load-stone of the Great, / And vulgar Souls must catch the glitt'ring Bait."
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1733
"Be wise and pannick fright disdain, / At notions, meteors of the brain"
preview | full record— Green, Matthew (1696-1737) [pseud. Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford]
Date: 1733-4
"Passions, like Elements, tho' born to fight, / Yet, mix'd and soften'd, in his work unite"
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Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"'Twas thus, if ancient fame the truth unfold, / Two faithful needles, from the informing touch / Of the same parent-stone, together drew / Its mystic virtue, and at first conspir'd / With fatal impulse quivering to the pole."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"So all things which have life aspire to God, / The sun of being, boundless, unimpair'd, / Center of souls!"
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