Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Of good and evil much, / And much of mortal man my thought revolv'd; / When starting full on fancy's gushing eye / The mournful image of Parthenia's fate, / That hour, o long belov'd and long deplor'd."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Hitherto the stores, / Which feed thy mind and exercise her powers, / Partake the relish of their native soil, / Their parent earth."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1745
"'Deep are the Wounds that plough the guilty Mind, / 'Nor golden Crowns the rising Pang can quell."
preview | full record— Mendez, Moses (d. 1758); Gil Blas [Alain-René Lesage] (1668-1747)
Date: 1745
"'Tis Pride, or Emptiness, applies the straw / That tickles little minds to mirth effuse; / Of grief approaching, the portentous sign!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1746, 1749
"For the hurt Eye an instant Cure you find; Then why neglect, for Years, the sickening Mind?"
preview | full record— Francis, Philip (1708-1773)
Date: 1746, 1793
"Yet, could'st thou in that dreadful hour, / On my rack'd soul all Lethe pour, / Or fan me with the gelid breeze, / That chains in ice th' indignant seas."
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1746
"There let the classic Page thy fancy lead / Thro rural Scenes; such as the Mantuan Swain / Paints in the matchless Harmony of Song. / Or catch thyself the Landskip, gliding swift / Athwart Imagination's vivid Eye."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: September 27, 1746
"Painful reflection! poyson to my mind!"
preview | full record— Hervey, John, second Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696-1743)
Date: 1746
Passion may be cured by averting the sight of vice
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James