Date: 1756
"Oh, God of Sleep! arise, and spread / Thy healing vapours round my head; / To thy friendly mansions take, / My soul that burns, / Till he returns, / For whom alone I wish to wake."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1759
"Oh! thou art ever faithful--on thy lips / Sits pensive silence, with her hallow'd finger / Guarding the pure recesses of thy mind."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1775
One may carry with him "all the flimsy furniture of a country Miss's brain"
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)