Date: 1741
"Such practices may happen to discourage and jade the Mind by an Attempt above its Power, it may balk the Understanding, and create an Aversion to future Diligence, and perhaps by Despair may forbid the Pursuit of that subject for ever afterwards; as a Limb over-strained by lifting a Weight above...
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1741
"Yet there should be a Caution given in some Cases: the Memory of a Child or any infirm person should not be over-burdened; for a Limb or a Joint may be overstrained by being too much loaded, and its natural Power never be recovered."
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Date: 1742
A poet may "to the Eye of Judgement ever shine"
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1742
"The soul is on a rack; the rack of rest, / To souls most adverse; action all their joy."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"A night that glooms us in the noon-tide ray, / And wraps our thought, at banquets, in the shroud."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"Warnings point out our danger; gnomons, time: / As these are useless when the sun is set; / So those, but when more glorious Reason shines. / Reason should judge in all; in Reason's eye, / That sedentary shadow travels hard."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"Thought, too, deliver'd, is the more possess'd: / Teaching we learn; and giving we retain / The births of intellect; when dumb, forgot."
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Date: 1742
"Through chinks, styled organs, dim Life peeps at light; / Death bursts the' involving cloud, and all is day; / All eye, all ear, the disembodied power."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"Is not the mighty mind, that son of heaven, / By tyrant Life dethroned, imprison'd, pain'd? / By Death enlarged, ennobled, deified? / Death but entombs the body; Life, the soul."
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Date: 1742
"Yet man (fool man!) here buries all his thoughts; / Inters celestial hopes without one sigh."
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