Date: 1746
"As the grave sage, who studies to explore, / Some cause phaenonimous--unknown before, / With patience waits--revolving in his mind / The vast events--attending human kind, / Till some propitious star his soul inspires, / And gives the great solution he requires."
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James
Date: 1746, 1749
"For Peace and War succeed by Turns in Love, / And while tempestuous these Emotions roll, / And float with blind Disorder in the Soul."
preview | full record— Francis, Philip (1708-1773)
Date: 1747
"Since here defective, Heaven be so kind / With never-fading charms to dress my mind"
preview | full record— Teft, Elizabeth (fl. 1741-7)
Date: 1747
The soul may let in "the baneful poison of repeated sin" as the snuff-taker does snuff
preview | full record— Teft, Elizabeth (fl. 1741-7)
Date: 1747
"Old Gripus ne'er was known to be devout, / Till Satan found his ruling passion out"
preview | full record— Gilbert, Thomas (bap. 1713, d. 1766)
Date: 1747
"Something there is within this strange machine, / Which elevates my mind, and makes me dive / Too deep in fate"
preview | full record— Gilbert, Thomas (bap. 1713, d. 1766)
Date: 1747
"Stupendous truths! here human wisdom fails, / Lost in a labyrinth of endless thought"
preview | full record— Gilbert, Thomas (bap. 1713, d. 1766)
Date: 1747
The mind may be wounded
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)
Date: 1747
"The figures, which must actuate her, remain / As yet quite uncollected in the brain; / Exterior objects have not furnish' yet / Th' ideal stores which Age is sure to get."
preview | full record— Cardinal Melchior de Polignac (1661-1741)