Date: 1745
"But SATIRE's arrow searches ev'ry breast: / She plays a ruling passion on the rest"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1745
"Lo! Shaftsb'ry rears her [Satire] high on reason's throne, / And loads the slave with honours not her own."
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1745
"Conscience, her first law broken, wounded lies; / Enfeebled, lifeless, impotent to good; / A feign'd affection bounds her utmost power."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1745
"Follow Nature still, / But look it be thine own: is Conscience then / No part of Nature? Is she not supreme? / Thou regicide! O raise her from the dead!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1745
"Could human courts take vengeance on the mind, / Axes might rust, and racks and gibbets fall: / Guard then thy mind, and leave the rest to fate."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1745
"Too much my heart of Beauty's power hath known, / Too long to Love hath reason left her throne; / Too long my genius mourn'd his myrtle chain, / And three rich years of youth consum'd in vain."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1745
"He who his rising Anger can't controul, / Shall rue the Sallies of his heated Soul, / Shall wish, in Agony of Heart, undone / What Passion will'd in absent Reason's Throne."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1745
"Anger's a short-liv'd Madness, and with Sway, / Rules Sovereign if not tutor'd to obey"
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1746
Imagination may "Bring what ideas she can find / To the great storehouse of the Mind, / Where Judgement ever sits serene, / To rule the vague and sportive queen"
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1746, 1753
"Heart, voice, mein, visage, all, pay love their aid, / Cupid exacts more strict alliance made; / 'Twixt the mind's states, than, once, 'twixt Europe's, he, / Who bound all princes--yet, left none unfree."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)