Date: 1700
"Reason, 'tis true, shou'd over Sense Preside, / Correct our Notions, and our Judgment Guide; / But false Opinions, rooted in the Mind, / Hoodwink the Soul, and keep our Reason Blind."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1703, 1718
"Guilt's infernal Gloom, and horrid Night" may "O'erwhelm [Man's] Intellectual Sight"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
"When Man with Reason dignify'd is born, / No Images his naked Mind adorn: / No Sciences or Arts enrich his Brain, / Nor Fancy yet displays her pictur'd Train."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
"Our Intellectual, like the Body's Eye, / Whilst in the Womb, no Object can descry; / Yet is dispos'd to entertain the Light, / And judge of Things when offer'd to the Sight."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
"The Learned, who with Anatomic Art / Dissect the Mind, and thinking Substance part, / And various Pow'rs and Faculties assert; / Perhaps by such Abstraction of the Mind / Divide the Things, that are in Nature joyn'd."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: w. 1702-1713, 1989
"By turns a thousand inclinations rise / & each by turns as impotently dies."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1714
The Soul returns "Naked from off this Beach and perfect Blank, / To visit the New World"
preview | full record— Evans, Abel (1679-1737)
Date: 1718
"Black Guilt involves the World in horrid Night, / And clouds our Intellectual Sight."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1746, 1749
"For the hurt Eye an instant Cure you find; Then why neglect, for Years, the sickening Mind?"
preview | full record— Francis, Philip (1708-1773)
Date: April 1750, 1791
"Yet still let reason thro' the eye of faith / View Him with fearful love; let truth pronounce, / And adoration on her bended knee / With Heav'n-directed hands confess His reign."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)