Date: 1773
"There, whilst the vault resounds my plaintive sigh, / In deathful echoes, shall Despondence bring / The saddest visions on the mind's wan eye, / That ever wav'd on Fancy's blackest wing"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1774
The mind, "With not a character engrav'd, presents / One universal blank."
preview | full record— Roberts, William Hayward (d. 1791)
Date: 1774
"Her soul, refin'd from passion's base alloy, / Seem'd wrapt in visions of seraphic joy."
preview | full record— Roberts, William Hayward (d. 1791)
Date: 1775
"Of vulgar minds why nature shuns the praise, / And why to yours her every charm displays; / Whether the happy strokes of beauty shine / On fancy's mirror, or in HOGARTH's line; / Whether to habit, mode, or place confin'd, / Or fixt a general truth in every mind; / Discussions these will wing our...
preview | full record— Shepherd, Richard (1731/2-1809)
Date: 1777
"Courage, the warrior's bosom steel'd."
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1777, 1793
"Light sits my bosom's Master on his throne; / Airy and disencumber'd feels my Soul."
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1777, 1793
"A prisoner in--Impossible!--I sleep: / 'Tis fancy's coinage; 'tis a dream's delusion."
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1777, 1793
"Twas but a coinage vain / Of the distemper'd fancy! Gone, 'tis gone,"
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1777, 1793
"Your gentle hearts / To kind impressions yet susceptible, / Will amiably hear a friend's advice"
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1777, 1793
"Of one, who, warm with human passions, soft / To tenderest impressions, frequent rush'd / Precipitate into the tangling maze"
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)