Date: w. 1764, published 1820
"O Peace of mind, thou lovely guest, / Thou softest soother of the breast, / Dispense thy balmy store."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: w. 1764, published 1820
"Yet, why repine? What, though by bonds confined, / Should bonds enslave the vigour of the mind?"
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1767
"[I]ndeed, in her more serious moments, which are but few, she, perhaps, gives me an hearing, when all at once a crowd of gayer thoughts rush on, and kill at once the hopes wherewith I was elated a few minutes before"
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1767
"Be rul'd by reason for your beauty's sake."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1767
"Beauty, ye fair, may forge the lover's chain; / But the mind's charms your empire must maintain."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1768
"Hope and fear alternate rising, / Strive for empire o'er my heart."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
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: 1775
Faded ideas float in the fancy like half-forgotten dreams
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
The imagination in its fullest enjoyments becomes suspicious of its offspring, and doubts whether it has created or adopted
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)