Date: 1755
"Can the troubled Brain / Of Sleep out-stretch the Reason's waking Eye?"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1756
"Oh! my dear love, quick, quickly drive away / Those boding thoughts which on your quiet prey; / The breed of Fancy, gender'd in the brain, / Nurs'd by the grosser spirits, light, and vain; / The vagrant visions of the sleeping mind, / Which vanish wak'd, nor leave a mark behind."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1756
"Let then my soul and body be a-kin, / Naked without, as desolate within."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1761
"Give me this Fury to asswage / One Drop, from some yet moist'ned Bowl / To cool the Fever in my Soul!"
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1767
"She hath buried my heart in sorrow, and engraven dishonour on the tomb of her ancestors"
preview | full record— Hull, Thomas (1728-1808); Tuke, Sir Samuel (d. 1624)
Date: 1769
Cares may "torment my tortur'd mind, / Leaving their rugged tracts behind"
preview | full record— Fergusson, Robert (1750-1774)
Date: 1773
Philosophers hold the soul to be of no sex
preview | full record— Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)