Date: 1785
A ruined mind may be "A blank of Nature, vanish'd every thought / That Nature, Reason, that Experience taught."
preview | full record— Lovibond, Edward (bap. 1723, d. 1775)
Date: 1785
"Thy saints proclaim thee King; and in their hearts / Thy title is engraven with a pen / Dipt in the fountain of eternal love"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
Hearts may scarce yield to impression while "The daughter's can soften and melt"
preview | full record— Lovibond, Edward (bap. 1723, d. 1775)
Date: 1785
"Ere Gold appear'd the Passions took their course; / Like whirldwinds swept the flowers of life along, / And crush'd the weak, and undermin'd the strong."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1785
"Mark now the proof I give thee, that the brave / Need no such aids as superstition lends / To steel their hearts against the dread of death!"
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Date: 1785
"He that attends to his interior self, [...] Has business; feels himself engaged to achieve / No unimportant, though a silent task."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
The "eyesight of discovery" may be blinded by constraints
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Date: 1785
"Behold the man a firmer bond requires, / For him the passion kindles all its fires."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1785
"Sov'reigns are subjects to the master part; / The ruling passion still maintains its post, / Monarch o'er monarchs, and the mortal's lost."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1785
When Passion dwells in the heart it is "Pleasure's court"
preview | full record— Lovibond, Edward (bap. 1723, d. 1775)