Date: 1730, 1744, 1746
"While he, from all the stormy passions free / That restless men involve, hears, and but hears, / At distance safe, the human tempest roar, / Wrapp'd close in conscious peace."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: June 22, 1731
"But Heaven, who knows our Frame, and graciously distinguishes between Frailty and Presumption, will make a Difference, tho' Man cannot, who sees not the Heart, but only judges by the outward Action."
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Date: 1731
Heaven stamped perfection on Caroline's mind
preview | full record— Pilkington, Matthew (1701-1774)
Date: 1731
"Let me forever on thy Bosom rest, / Stamp'd on thy Heart, and seal'd within thy Breast!"
preview | full record— Thompson, Isaac (1703-1776)
Date: 1731
"Such! as the softest Bosom steels!"
preview | full record— Ogle, George (1704-1746); Joannes Secundus Nicolaius
Date: 1731
"It must needs follow from hence, that Knowledge is an Inward and Active Energy of the Mind it self, and the displaying of its own Innate Vigour from within, whereby it doth Conquer, Master and Command its Objects, and so begets a Clear, Serene, Victorious, and Satisfactory Sense within it self."
preview | full record— Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)
Date: 1731
"And first of all, that the Soul is not a meer Rasa Tabula, a naked and Passive Thing, which has no innate Furniture or Activity its own, nor any thing at all in it, but what was impressed on it from without."
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Date: November 10, 1730
"Virtue, Love, and Grief, so amply fill her Mind, there is no Room for any ruder Guest"
preview | full record— Lillo, George (1691/3-1739)
Date: November 10, 1730
"Since Truth to the Mind her own Likeness reflects, / Let none the just Mirror despise."
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Date: June 22, 1731
"What Pity it is, a Mind so comprehensive, daring and inquisitive, shou'd be a Stranger to Religion's sweet, but powerful Charms."
preview | full record— Lillo, George (1691/3-1739)