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: 1769
"His wealth shall circulate through all her veins, / His flowing gold shall warm her vig'rous heart, / And health and plenty visit ev'ry part;"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1770
"Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, / The soul adopts and owns their firstborn sway; / Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, / Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1770
"But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. / As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, / Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, / Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, / Eternal sunshine settles on its head."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1770
"Imagination fondly stoops to trace / The parlour splendours of that festive place."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1771
"Immortal Truth his bosom steels, / And guards him glorious to the goal"
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Date: 1771
"The infant mind at coming to the world, is a meer rasa tabula, destitute of all ideas and materials of reflection."
preview | full record— Usher, James (1720-1771)
Date: 1771
"It is a charte blanche, ready for receiving the inscriptions of sense; yet it behoves us carefully to observe, that it differs from a rasa tabula or a sheet of clean paper, in the following respect, that you may write on clean paper; that sugar is bitter, wormwood sweet, fire and f...
preview | full record— Usher, James (1720-1771)
Date: 1772
"On his worn Pallet, now, view him reclin'd; / Terrifick Visions haunt his tortur'd Mind."
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)