Date: 1745
"'Tis Pride, or Emptiness, applies the straw / That tickles little minds to mirth effuse; / Of grief approaching, the portentous sign!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: September 27, 1746
"Painful reflection! poyson to my mind!"
preview | full record— Hervey, John, second Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696-1743)
Date: April 1750, 1791
"Yet still let reason thro' the eye of faith / View Him with fearful love; let truth pronounce, / And adoration on her bended knee / With Heav'n-directed hands confess His reign."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1751
"Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid / Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire."
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1752, 1790
A mind may be "soft, tho' bright, like her own eyes, / Discreetly witty, gayly wise."
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)
Date: 1752
"Worse than the other--Whom, thus robb'd of Pow'r. / His former Passions fatally devour!"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1752
"Well! does that make you wise, / Or open on your Follies, Reason's Eyes!"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: January, 1754; 1791
"Survey the magnet's sympathetic love, / That wooes the yielding needle; contemplate / Th'attractive amber's power, invisible / Ev'n to the mental eye."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)