Date: 1782
"Till then, old red-nos'd Wilson's art / Will hold its empire o'er my heart."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1787
"Yet when he bawl'd for sense, he bawl'd, I wot, / For furniture the head had never got."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: August 1783
"Death broke at once the vital chain, / And free'd his soul the nearest way."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1783, 1838
"If Passion rule us, be that passion pride"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1783, 1838
If Reason rule us, it "bids us strive to raise / Our fallen hearts, and be like him we praise"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1783, 1838
"[N]aked vices, rude and unrefined" may "Exert their open empire o'er the mind"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1784
"But, for the furniture within, / Whether it be of brains, or lead, / What matters it, so there's a head?"
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1784
"Nor is it thinking much, but doing, / That keeps our tenements from ruin"
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1784
"Thy piercing thought / Unaided saw each movement of the mind, / As skilful artists view the small machine, / The secret springs and nice dependencies, / And to thy mimic scenes, by fancy wrought / To such a wond'rous shape, th'impassion'd breast / In floods of grief, or peals of laughter bow'd, ...
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1785
"This is the case of many a beau / Who gives up all for glare and show. / Outside and front all fine and burnish'd, / But the inner rooms are thinly furnish'd."
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)