Date: 1787
"But when by various wrongs your bosom's steel'd, / Your groaning country calling to the field, / And 'twixt the foe and you the uncertain scale / Of fight must shew whose fortune shall prevail"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1788, 1803
"Oh! may good angels, kindling in thy breast / The lamp of reason, guard thee from their snares!"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1791
"In his soul was the serpent coil'd round in his heart, hid from the light, as in a cleft rock"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1794
"Forgetfulness, dumbness, necessity! / In chains of the mind locked up, / Like fetters of ice shrinking together."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1796
"Thus Books are intellectual Aliment drest / For every appetite of every guest."
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)