Date: 1756, 1766
"They will give us for it the despicable legends of fictitious saints and false miracles;--a history of diseases cured instantly by relicks;--accounts of speaking images;--stories of travelling chapels;--wonders done by a Madona;--and the devil knows what he has crowded into their wretched...
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1757
"It is rather the soft green of the soul on which we rest our eyes, that are fatigued with beholding more glaring objects"
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1758
"My mourning heart is melted in my frame / As wax dissolving runs before a flame"
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1758
"As seals their pictures to the wax impart, / So let my picture stamp thy gentle heart"
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: October 13, 1759
"My heart, a victim to thine eyes, / Should I at once deliver, / Say, would the angry fair one prize / The gift, who slights the giver?"
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
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: 1760
"Whenever this shall be executed, it is to be looked upon as the work of true genius; but when fallen short of, as often happens, it is to be deemed the impotent effort of the hard-bound brains of low plagiaries, whose memory is filled with the shreds and ill-chosen scraps of other mens wit."
preview | full record— Macklin, Charles (1697-1797)