Date: 1726, 1753
"As fire, by nature, climbs direct, and bright, / And beams, in spotless rays, a shining light; / But if some gross obstruction stops its way, / Smokes in low curls, and scents the sullied day: / So love, itself, untainted, and refin'd, / Borrows a tincture, from the colour'd mind."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1726, 1753
"Boundless desire, aw'd hope, and doubtful joy, / Stormy, by turns, the veering heart employ; / Sick'ning, in fancy's sun-shine, now, we faint, / And licence wounds us deeper, than restraint."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1728
"From what rich Fountain flow / Those ripening Beams of intellectual Day?"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1728
"How Reason's Lamp burns with incessant Toil, / To light the Judgment, and to guide the Will?"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1730
"No light the darkness of that mind invades, / Where Chaos rules, enshrin'd in genuine Shades;"
preview | full record— 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"
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1730
"Fancy, fair Mistress of the Poet's Mind, / For ever changing, yet, for ever kind; / Soft, o'er his Dreams, her formful Radiance shed, / And his rapt Soul thro' Heaven's thin Purlieus led; / Seated beside the Star-invading Dame, / Whose Steeds, Wind-footed, paw'd the lambent Flame, / High, as a W...
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Date: 1733
Sights may be perform'd, "illusive scene! / By magick lantern of the spleen"
preview | full record— Green, Matthew (1696-1737) [pseud. Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford]
Date: 1733-4
"Reason itself but gives it edge and pow'r; / As Heaven's blest beam turns vinegar more sowr"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1734, 1753
"Were it a crime in flashing souls, to rise, / And strike each other thro' the meeting eyes; / Those op'ning windows had not let in light, / Nor stream'd ideas out, to voice the sight."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)