Date: 1737
"The old project of a window in the bosom, to render the Soul of man visible, is what every honest friend has manifold reason to wish for; yet even that would not do in our case, while you are so far separated from me, and so long."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: October, 1739
"Bid Fancy quit her fairy cell, / In all her colours drest / While prompt her sallies to control, / Reason, the judge, recalls the soul / To Truth's severest test."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1739
"O come, and consecrate my Breast: / The Temple of my Soul prepare, / And six thy Sacred Presence there!"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1739
"Long my imprison'd spirit lay, / Fast bound in sin and nature's night: / Thine eye diffused a quickening ray; / I woke; the dungeon flamed with light; / My chains fell off, my heart was free, / I rose, went forth, and follow'd Thee."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1740
"Thus lawless conquerors our town restore, / With the sad marks of their inhuman power; / No art, nor time, such ravage can repair; / No superstructure can these ruins bear."
preview | full record— Dixon, Sarah (1671/2-1765)
Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"She pours out all her Soul in [Soliloquies and little Reasonings] before her Parents without Disguise; so that one may judge of, nay, almost see, the inmost Recesses of her Mind"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"For, as I have heard you, my best Tutor, often observe, the Peculiarities of Habit, where a Person aims at something fantastick, or out of Character, are an undoubted Sign of a wrong Head: For such an one is so kind, as always to hang out on his Sign, what sort of Furniture he has in his Shop, t...
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"And yet the Soul, shut up in her dark Room, / Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"I see your sweet Eyes begin to glisten:---- O how this Subject raises your whole Soul to the Windows of it!"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1741
"The best room in my house you [the mind] have seized for your own, / And turned the whole tenement quite upside down, / While you hourly call in a disorderly crew / Of vagabond rogues, who have nothing to do / But to run in and out, hurry-scurry, and keep / Such a horrible uproar, I can't get to...
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)