Date: 1743, 1745
"From the court-mint, of hearts the current coin / The pulpit presses, but the pattern drives."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1762-3
"With these grave fops, whose system seems / To give up certainty for dreams / The eye of man is understood / As for no other purpose good / Than as a door, through which, of course, / Their passage crowding objects force; / A downright usher, to admit / New-comers to the court of Wit."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)