Date: 1753
"Where shall a thoughtless youth this treasure find? / This art of judgment, that becalms the mind? / Chains anger short; and sets reflection free, / Gives tumult temper---and makes fortune see?"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1754
"If, holy Father, to be here distress'd, / Seals the repenting Soul to heav'nly rest,"
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1756
"O take me! stamp me on thy breast! / Deep let the image be imprest!"
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: June, 1756
"But soul-rejoicing health again returns, / The blood meanders gentle in each vein, / The lamp of life renew'd with vigour burns, / And exil'd reason takes her seat again-- / Brisk leaps the heart, the mind's at large once more, / To love, to praise, to bless, to wonder and adore."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1757
"Another tells how "melts his heart, 'Like wax'"
preview | full record— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)
Date: 1757
"But has not Hatred found a part, / Deep lodg'd the cavern of thy Heart, / Or started from thine eyes?"
preview | full record— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)
Date: 1757, 1758, 1771, 1777
"Before my wondering sense new phantoms dance, / And stamp their horrid shapes upon my brain."
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1758, 1781
"This Truth once stated, and the Soul, 'tis plain, Much on the filmy Texture of the Brain, / Much on Formations that escape our Eyes, / On nice Connections, and Coherencies, / And on corporeal Organs must depend, / For her own Function's Exercise, and End"
preview | full record— Hawkins, William (1721-1801)