Date: 1678
"Into his studious Closet to stuff his Lunatick head, since he can get nothing for his belly."
preview | full record— Porter, Thomas (1636-1680)
Date: 1684
"In that white Snow which overspreads your skin, / We trace ye whiter Soul which dwells within."
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1734
"Something as dim to our internal view, / Is thus, perhaps, the cause of most we do."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1773
"There, whilst the vault resounds my plaintive sigh, / In deathful echoes, shall Despondence bring / The saddest visions on the mind's wan eye, / That ever wav'd on Fancy's blackest wing"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)