Date: 1781
"Insulted Reason fled the grov'ling soul, / For Fear to guide, and visions to control: / But now, when Reason has assumed her throne, / She, in her turn, demands to reign alone"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1781
Reason may reject "all that lies beyond her view / And being judge, will be a witness too"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1781
"Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind / To stamp a lasting image of the mind!"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1782
"Till then, old red-nos'd Wilson's art / Will hold its empire o'er my heart."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1787
"Yet when he bawl'd for sense, he bawl'd, I wot, / For furniture the head had never got."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: August 1783
"Death broke at once the vital chain, / And free'd his soul the nearest way."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1783, 1838
"If Passion rule us, be that passion pride"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1783, 1838
If Reason rule us, it "bids us strive to raise / Our fallen hearts, and be like him we praise"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1783, 1838
"[N]aked vices, rude and unrefined" may "Exert their open empire o'er the mind"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1784
"But, for the furniture within, / Whether it be of brains, or lead, / What matters it, so there's a head?"
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)