Date: 1730

"No light the darkness of that mind invades, / Where Chaos rules, enshrin'd in genuine Shades;"

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

Date: 1730

"No light the darkness of that mind invades, / Where Chaos rules, enshrin'd in genuine Shades; / Where, in the Dungeon of the Soul inclos'd,/ True Dulness nods, reclining and repos'd.

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

Date: 1730

A "mimic gleam of transient light" may break through the gloom of dullness "and then they think they write"

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

Date: 1735

"God gave us Reason as the Stars were giv'n, / Not to discard the Sun, but mark out Heav'n."

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

Date: 1735

"Reason at most, but imitates the Sun, / To each is various, and to All is one"

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

Date: 1735

"And if such dormant Reason bears no fruit, / Dead in the branch, tho' real at the root, / Defect and actual Ignorance are one,"

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

Date: 1735

"True to the clear, unbiast, humble soul, / Which trembling seeks her, as the steel its pole!"

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

Date: 1735

"Thro' the dark Void ev'n gleams of Truth can shoot, / And love of Liberty upheave at root."

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

Date: 1735

"No more the tender seeds unquicken'd lie, / But stretch their form and wait for wings to fly."

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

Date: 1735

"Sensation first, the groundwork of the whole, / Deals ray by ray each image to the soul."

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)