Date: 1746, 1757
"Yet tho' to human Sight invisible, / If She, whom I implore, Urania deign, / With Euphrasy to purge away the Mists / Which, humid, dim the Mirror of the Mind; / (As Venus gave Æneas to behold / The angry Gods with Flame o'erwhelming Troy, / Neptune and Pallas,) not in vain, I'll sing / The mysti...
preview | full record— Thompson, William (bap. 1712, d.c. 1766)
Date: 1757
"Not sure where found the noble mind: / From vulgar dross and dregs refin'd: / High polish'd--and obdure!"
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: 1746, 1757
"If Pity be no Stranger to thy Breast, / (As sure it should not to a Breast like thine, / Soft as the Swanny Down!) relenting, hear"
preview | full record— Thompson, William (bap. 1712, d.c. 1766)
Date: 1757
"Let heav'n-born Mercy ever fill thy Breast, / And Truth be there an ever constant Guest."
preview | full record— Arnold, Cornelius (b. 1714, d. in or after 1758?)
Date: 1759
A Logician is "one, that has been broke / To Ride and Pace his Reason by the Booke, And by their Rules, and Precepts, and Examples, / To put his wits into a kind of Trammells."
preview | full record— Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)
Date: 1760
"How short aspiring Reason's vaunted Line, / When stretch'd to search thy Ways, thy Works divine!""
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1760?
The Grace teaches "When to check the sportive Vein; / When to Fancy give the Rein."
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1760?
The Grace teaches "On the Subject when to be / Grave or gay, reserv'd or free: / The speaking Air, th' impassion'd Eye, / The living Soul of Symmetry; / And that soft Sympathy that binds / In magic Chains congenial Minds."
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: w. May, 1756; 1761
"For these, if I forget my patron's praise, / While bright ideas dance upon my mind, / Ne'er may these eyes behold auspicious days, / May friends prove faithless, and the Muse unkind."
preview | full record— Fawkes, Francis (1720-1777)