Date: 1764
"Like such a garden, when the human soul, / Uncultured, wild, impatient of control, / Brings forth those passions of luxuriant race, /Which spread, and stifle every herb of grace
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1764
Virtue may wither on the bed she was born until Philosophy steps in and "clears the encumbered land" and "roots up every weed"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1766
"Gen'rous bosoms, more than gems of gold, / Rich funds of morals, knowledge, sense, unfold; / Transmitting each, to each, the rising store, / For wisdom's plants, while cropping, flourish more, A magic circle! whose enchanted round, / Admits no fiend to tread the hallow'd ground."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1766
"In judgment's sunshine fancy's flow'rets bloom, / And innocence exalts their fresh perfume: / No weeds of envy choke the fertile soil"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1767, 1784
"But plant some gentler passion in its room, / Some virtuous instinct suited to your make, / As glory is to ours, alike required / A ransom for the vulgar's vassal state, / Then wou'dst thou soon the strong contention own, / And justify my conduct."
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1773, 1810
"Hail, mild Philosophy! the province thine, / To chase the spectres of the dark Divine! / Not to fix errour, but with reason's art, / To root the stiff old-woman from the heart."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1773, 1894-1895
"For what the Bark is to the growing Tree, / To human Mind, that, Patience seems to be; / They hold the Principles of Growth together, / And blunt the Force of Accident, and Weather."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773, 1894-1895
"Patience defends us from all outward Hap; / Of inward Life Thanksgiving is the Sap."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1774-1776, 1788, 1803
"Well-skill'd / To form the growing soul, and on its young / And opening bud to fix the impression deep / Of every generous thought"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1782
"Happiest soil" may be found "in the serenest minds"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)