Date: 1752
"My ever waking Soul, / Sits brooding o'er a Train of Images, / That constant rise in terrible Array, / And shrink my Resolution into Fears."
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Date: 1759
"Seek not thus / To multiply the ills that hover round you; / Nor from the stores of busy fancy add / New shafts to fortune's quiver."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1759
"Fatal day! / More fatal e'en than that, which first beheld / This race accurs'd within these palace walls, / Since hope, that balm of wretched minds, is now / Irrevocably lost."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1759
"Mark well my words--discolour not thy soul / With the black hue of crimes like his."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1759
"The moral duties of the private man / Are grafted in thy soul."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1764
"Bold was the man, and fenc'd in ev'ry part /With oak, and ten-fold brass about the heart, / To build a play who tortur'd first his brain, / And then dar'd launch it on this stormy main."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1769
A debt of gratitude to parents is "stamp'd upon our frames; In polish'd minds it shines the most"
preview | full record— Reed, Joseph (1723-1787)
Date: 1769
"Your beauteous looks inspire my mind / With passion of the purest kind: / No selfish views my bosom sway, / But all is love without allay."
preview | full record— Reed, Joseph (1723-1787)
Date: 1785
In the "scales of suspense" two fancies may be hung
preview | full record— MacNally, Leonard (1752-1820)
Date: 1788
"[A guardian] claps a pen in my hand, and ties me like a seal to his ugly parchment, while my heart can receive no impression, but the idea of my beloved Aircourt"
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)