Date: w. 1757, 1758
"Oh how this earth's best blessings sink in worth, / When on that scene is open'd the mind's eyes!"
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1758
"COME, Epictetus, arm my breast / With thy impenetrable steel, / No more the wounds of grief to feel, / Nor mourn, by others' woes deprest."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1758
"Nor let me shrink when Fancy's eye / Beholds the guilty wretch's breast / Beneath the tort'ring pincers heave!"
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Date: 1758
"Let inward beauty charm the mental sight; / Let godlike Reason, beaming bright, / Chase far away each gloomy shade, / Till VIRTUE's heav'nly form display'd / Alone shall captivate my soul, / And her divinest love possess me whole!"
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Date: 1758
"Is it not soul, weak, ignorant, and blind?"
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Date: 1758, 1781
"'Tis with our Minds, as with our Bodies, none / In Essence differ, yet each knows his own."
preview | full record— Hawkins, William (1721-1801)
Date: 1758, 1781
"Nay in Proportion lighter Ails controul / The mental Virtue, and infect the Soul."
preview | full record— Hawkins, William (1721-1801)
Date: 1759, 1761
"To her mind's eye a thousand ghosts appear, / The foolish apparitions of her fear."
preview | full record— Fawkes, Francis (1720-1777); Menander (342-291 B.C.)
Date: 1759
"Fair Nymph! oft inward turn your mental Eye, / Your Soul reflecting can herself descry: / By Self-examination, she will find / Each Blemish, in the Features of the Mind."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1759
"Some Readers read too much, as Gluttons eat, / These Flatulence produce, and those Conceit; / If you, by reading much, would Knowledge gain, / Think, while you read, or you will read in vain."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)