Date: 1775
"What numbers censure, but how few judge right, / On subjects, which demand the soul's keen sight"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1777
In "the dark maeanders" of Vice's "foul abode ... busy Spirits forge, with curious art,/ The triple plates of brass, to guard the heart / From Reason's bold assault"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1777
In Vice's "foul abode ... hellish ministers with fatal care / From baneful drugs the potent juice prepare; / Whose dead'ning posset dulls the mental sense
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1777, 1793
"Hail, sacred solitude! These are thy works, / True source of good supreme! Thy blest effects /Already on my mind's delighted eye / Open beneficent"
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1778
"To melancholy thoughts awakes the soul, / And lulls the mind to contemplation's dream"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1778
"But, as an author of great fame / (I can't just recollect his name) / Has somewhere said, who seeks to bind / By force, or fraud, a woman's mind, / With locks, and bolts, and bars, and chains, / But gets his labour for his pains."
preview | full record— Moore, Sir John Henry (1756-1780)
Date: 1779
"Hope delayed fatigues the mind, / And drinks the spirits up"
preview | full record— Newton, John (1725-1807)
Date: 1782
"Faults in the life breed errors in the brain"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
"Parisian paint of every kind, / That stains the body or the mind, / Proclaims the Harlot's art"
preview | full record— Logan, John (1748-1788)