Date: 1785
"From shadows thinner than the fleeting night / That floats along the vale, or haply seems / To wrap the mountain in its hazy vest, / (Which the first sun-beam dissipates in air.) / How dost thou conjure monsters which ne'er mov'd / But in the chaos of thy frenzied brain!"
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1786, 1816
"In vain at glory gudgeon Boswell snaps-- / His mind's a paper kite--compos'd of scraps / Just o'er the tops of chimneys form'd to fly."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1786
"The stamp of artless piety impress'd / By kind tuition on his yielding breast"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1786
Vile example may be stamped on the breast
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1787
"The shield, an emblem of thy soul, displays / Truth, equity and wisdom, hand in hand."
preview | full record— Glover, Richard (1712-1785)
Date: 1787
"Fat is foul weather--dims the fancy's sight"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1780, 1788
"Nature! on thy maternal breast / For ever be his worth engrav'd!"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1788
" Blest be that pencil, every art be blest, / That stamps his image deeper on our breast!"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1788
"His verse as elegant; unspotted lines / Flow from a mind unspotted as themselves."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1788
"Shall I trust the thoughts that rise / And struggle in my panting breast, / Tinted with a thousand dyes, / Image quick on image prest"
preview | full record— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)