Date: 1756
"My brain's on fire, my blood begins to boil."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1758
Truth is the "Great queen of harmony ... whose moral scepter rules the hearts of kings"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1758
"Deep in their soules ye fair impression lay, / Deep-tracd & never to be worn away."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1758
"If at the type our dreaming soules awake, / & Hannahs strains their Just impression make"
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1766
"Love laugh'd, and, sure of conquest, wing'd a dart / Unerring, to her undefended heart."
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Date: 1766
"To stamp Fraternity on gen'rous hearts: [...] Celestial Charity to-night descends"
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Date: 1766
"Fancy leads the fetter'd senses / Captives to her fond controul; / Merit may have rich pretences, / But 'tis Fancy fires the soul."
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Date: 1766
"Far beyond the bonds of meaning / Fancy flies, a Fairy queen!"
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Date: 1763, 1767
"So stern Philosophy severe affirms, / With shrunk abstracted eye, and iron soul."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1763, 1767
"The guardian genius of his dawning thought, / Who wide disclos'd to wisdom's sacred ray / The eager inlets of his ample mind, / And pour'd upon each opening mental cell, / The virtue-forming scientific beam / With letter'd and religious radiance fill'd, / The fair expanses of his princely soul, ...
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)