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
"Soon as his Breast receiv'd the potent Ray, / Whate'er possest it, instantly gave way; / As in the Wood before the Lightning's Beam, / Perish the Leaves, and the whole Tree is Flame."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1746, 1753
"So, from injected thought, shoots passion's growth; / No sprout spontaneous, no chance child, of sloth: / Idea lends it root-- firm, on touch'd minds, / Fancy, (swift planter!) first, th' impression binds; / Shap'd in conception's mould, nature's prompt skill / Bids subject nerves obey th' inspi...
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1746, 1753
"Mourn it, ye sons of spleen, whose hands (mistaught) / Tore up this seed of sense, this plant of thought / Whence reasoning shoots might bloom life's garden o'er, And weedy wildness choak her walks no more."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1751, 1791
"Now take a Simile at Hand, / Compare the mental Soil to Land."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: February 1755
"See yon delicious woodbines rise / By oaks exalted to the skies, / So view in Harriot's matchless mind / Humility and greatness join'd."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1758, 1781
"'Tis hence the sev'ral Passions take their Rise, / The Seeds of Virtue, and the Roots of Vice; / Hence Notes peculiar or to Young, or Old, / Phlegmatic, sanguine, amorous, or cold!"
preview | full record— Hawkins, William (1721-1801)
Date: 1764
"Like such a garden, when the human soul, / Uncultured, wild, impatient of control, / Brings forth those passions of luxuriant race, /Which spread, and stifle every herb of grace
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1764
Virtue may wither on the bed she was born until Philosophy steps in and "clears the encumbered land" and "roots up every weed"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1765
"Reason in the bosom pours, / Its growth improves, its fruit matures, / Each counsel of the human brain / Weighs in his scale, and stamps it vain?"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)