Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Passion's fierce illapse / Rouzes the mind's whole fabric; with supplies / Of daily impulse keeps the elastic powers / Intensely poiz'd, and polishes anew / By that collision all the fine machine: / Else rust would rise, and foulness, by degrees / Incumbering, choak at last what heaven design'd ...
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"For to the brutes / Perception and the transient boons of sense / Hath fate imparted: but to man alone / Of sublunary beings was it given / Each fleeting impulse on the sensual powers / At leisure to review; with equal eye / To scan the passion of the stricken nerve / Or the vague object strikin...
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1745
"A soul in commerce with her God is heaven; / Feels not the tumults and the shocks of life; / The whirls of passions, and the strokes of heart."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1745
"Imagination wanders far afield."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1747
"In Vain I strive with Female Art, / To hide the Motions of my Heart; / My Eyes my secret Flame declare, / And Damon reads his Triumph there."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1746; December 17, 1747 [actually January, 1748]
"No more to fabled names confin’d, / To Thee! Supreme, all-perfect mind, / My thoughts direct their flight: / Wisdom’s thy gift, and all her force / From Thee deriv’d, unchanging source / Of intellectual light!"
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: November 1752, 1791
"Illustrious name, irrefragable proof / Of man's vast genius, and the soaring soul!"
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1757, 1758, 1771, 1777
"Before my wondering sense new phantoms dance, / And stamp their horrid shapes upon my brain."
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1758
"Check not the flow of sweet fraternal love, / By Heav'n's high King in bounty giv'n, / Thy stubborn heart to soften and improve, / Thy earth-clad spirit to refine, / And gradual raise to love divine, / And wing its soaring flight to Heav'n!"
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1758, 1781
"Hence then the Cause of all Defects is seen, / one wrong Movement spoils the whole Machine."
preview | full record— Hawkins, William (1721-1801)