Date: 1764
" Virtue he lack'd, cursed with those thoughts which spring / In souls of vulgar stamp"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: January, 1764; 1774
"While prose-man deems the verse-man fool, / And measures wit by line and rule, / And, as he lops off fancy's limb, / Turns executioner of whim."
preview | full record— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)
Date: 1764
"To this cabinet volition, or will, has a key; so when an arduous subject occurs, I unlock my bureau, pull out the particular drawer, and am supply'd with what I want in an instant."
preview | full record— Foote, Samuel (1720-1777)
Date: 1765 [1764]
"This bitter taunt galled the soul of Manfred."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1765
"My heart in groans its grief proclaims, / And melts, as wax before the flames"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)
Date: 1765
"And my heart, within me burning, / Is become like melting wax."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1765
"Reason in the bosom pours, / Its growth improves, its fruit matures, / Each counsel of the human brain / Weighs in his scale, and stamps it vain?"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)
Date: 1765
"Are your thoughts by Justice sway'd, / And in Reason's balance weigh'd?"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)
Date: 1765, 1770
"Passions, and snow balls each by motion swell, / And Kitty finds her little heart rebel; / Full of desires she sighs for this, and that, / Her heart for ev'ry man goes pit-a-pat."
preview | full record— Thompson, Edward (1738-1786)
Date: 1765, 1770
"We've some of hotter, some of colder make, / And some whose drowsy passions never wake."
preview | full record— Thompson, Edward (1738-1786)