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)
Date: 1765, 1770
"Great is the soul which fears no vulgar awe, / But proves with pride that love's her first, great law."
preview | full record— Thompson, Edward (1738-1786)
Date: 1765, 1770
"This is the man who first impeach'd his friend, / And on his ruin rose, yet could not lend / One cobweb virtue from his scurvy soul, / Which sins by study, and without controul."
preview | full record— Thompson, Edward (1738-1786)
Date: 1765, 1770
"When health and vigour swell'd my youthful veins, / Lust drew my carriage, Folly held the reins."
preview | full record— Thompson, Edward (1738-1786)
Date: 1761, 1770
"Why should Hibernia let her daughters roam / Why not confin'd to conquer hearts at home?"
preview | full record— Thompson, Edward (1738-1786)
Date: 1771
"Roused from the sleep of death, a countless crowd / ("Whose hearts like trees before the wind are bow'd ... ) / Press to the hallow'd courts, with eager strife, / Catch the convincing word, and hear for life"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1777, 1810
"And oft the bard's elastic mind / To lighter images inclined; / In concord with Anacreon's measure, / Courts the jovial gods of pleasure."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1778, 1804
"There is some kind and courtly sprite / That o'er the realm of Fancy reigns."
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1783
"Learn hence, that husbands will be blind / To every beauty but the mind; / Great Venus there should hold her court; / should the Loves and Graces sport / There rapture beam'd in every feature, / Bound by that Cestus, called Good Nature."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)