Date: 1739
"Fraud, rapine, murder, guilt's long horrid train, / Distracted nature's anarchy maintain."
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1739
"But as the moon reflecting borrow'd day, /Sheds on our shadow'd world a feeble ray: /Some scatter'd beams of Reason law contains, /While Order's rule must be enforc'd by pains"
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1739
"But if you have your Masters within your corrupt Mind, how are you Freer than this Slave, who is frighted to his Business by his Master's Frown, and Lash."
preview | full record— Sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738)
Date: 1739
"Ask ye what Law their conq'ring Cause confess'd? / Great Nature's Law, the Law within the Breast, / Form'd by no Art, and to no Sect confin'd, / But stamp'd by Heav'n upon th' unletter'd Mind."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"By Personal Freedom I mean that State resulting from Virtue; or Reason ruling in the Breast superior to Appetite and Passion."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"Base Fear, the Laziness of Lust, gross Appetites, / These are the Ladders, and the groveling Footstool, / From whence the Tyrant rises on our Wrongs, / Secure and scepter'd in the Soul's Servility."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"No---in the deep and deadly Damp of Dungeons / The Soul can rear her Sceptre, smile in Anguish, / And triumph o'er Oppression."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"I am all / That's left to calm, to sooth his troubled Soul, / To Penitence, to Virtue; and perhaps / Restore the better Empire o'er his Mind, / True Seat of all Dominion."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1741
"But Thou shalt rise superior to their Arts, / And fix Thy Empire in a People's Hearts."
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1742
"Where heav'nly Reason with her temperate Light, / Teaches th'unbiass'd Mind to judge aright / There Property secure enjoys her own; / There Conscience sits untroubl'd on her Throne"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)