Date: 1730
"Tho' his capacious Head, the sacred Ark! / Where a whole World of Science does imbark, / Has steer'd and labour'd all it can, / As Reason fill'd the Sail, / Yet what does all this fruitless search avail?"
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Date: 1730
"Whate'er we see, whate'er we feel, / Does all the God reveal, / Confirms the Grand Mistake / Of Those, whose Eagle-Thoughts would make / His Seat so wondrous high, / Beyond the Limits of the Sky, /Out beyond the World's wide Sphear, /And fix his Habitation there."
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Date: 1730
"Whether we send our Reason's piercing Rays / Beneath the Great, unbounded Deep, / Where Storms and Tempests sleep, / Whether unrein'd Imagination strays / Thro' the black, Howling Desart's pathless Ways, / The Deep and Howling Wilderness declare / The Omnipresent Godhead there."
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Date: 1730
"Whether amid the Gloom we stray, / And send our Intellectual Ray / Up to the pure, cærulean Plains on high, / There all the Glories of the Sky, / As round the liquid Space / They run their bright, ætherial Race."
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Date: 1731
Heaven stamped perfection on Caroline's mind
preview | full record— Pilkington, Matthew (1701-1774)
Date: 1732
The fancy may own its errors and humbly bow to Reason
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1732
One may "win and hold the Conquest of a Mind"
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Date: 1732
"The Force of Modulated Sound, .... tunes the Heart at ev'ry Turn"
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Date: 1732
"With ev'ry Moment [Music] gives new Passions Birth"
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Date: 1732
As music "certain Conquest makes, the Savage Soul refines"
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