Date: 1745
"New to each hour what low delight succeeds, / What precious furniture of hearts and heads!"
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1745
"Off! Traitors! off! or my distracted Soul / Will burst indignant from this Jail of Nature! / To where she beckons yonder."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1745
"The body is but the house; the soul is the tenant that inhabits it; the body is the instrument; the soul the artist that directs it."
preview | full record— Mason, John (1706-1763)
Date: 1745
"It was He that placed thee in this body, as in a prison: where thy capacities are cramped, thy desires debased, and thy liberty lost."
preview | full record— Mason, John (1706-1763)