Date: 1773, 1894-1895
"Your Doctor's Potion, Patience, and the Bark, / May hit both mental, and material Mark; / One serves to keep the Ague from the Mind, / As t'other does, from its corporeal Rind."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
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."
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Date: 1773, 1894-1895
"That He, to Whom all Love is due, / Engraves upon pure loving Hearts."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773
"If Reason must judge, and we two must agree, / Another, third Reason must give the Decree"
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Date: 1773, 1894-1895
One may learn "her Lesson from within" and "There […] read the Characters imprest / Upon the Mind of ev'ry human Breast,-- / The native Laws prescrib'd to every Soul, / And Love, the One Fulfiller of the Whole."
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Date: 1774
"That Bride, if reason may presume / To judge by things past, things to come, / In future times will tread the stage, / Equally form'd for love and rage, / Whilst Pope for comic humour famed, / Shall live when Clive no more is named."
preview | full record— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)
Date: 1774
The mind, "With not a character engrav'd, presents / One universal blank."
preview | full record— Roberts, William Hayward (d. 1791)
Date: 1774
"Her soul, refin'd from passion's base alloy, / Seem'd wrapt in visions of seraphic joy."
preview | full record— Roberts, William Hayward (d. 1791)