Date: 1754
Reason may rule the mind and keep her God-like seat
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1754
"O, come; indignant, drive out, far beyond/ The utmost Precincts of the human Breast, / Beyond the Springs of Hope, the Cells of Joy, / And ev'ry Mansion where a Virtue lives; / O drive far off, for ever drive that Bane, / That hideous Pest, engender'd deep in Hell, / Where Stygian Glooms condens...
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1755, 1773
"All the empire I had wanted / Then had been my shepherd's heart."
preview | full record— Shenstone, William (1714-1763)
Date: 1755, 1836
"Should man through Nature solitary roam, / His will his sovereign, every where his home, / What force would guard him from the lion's jaw?"
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1755
Various are the forms that virtue assumes to regulate the active soul, "When rais'd passions dare to presume / The check of reason to controul"
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel
Date: 1755
" When knowledge vainly tries, to form a rule / For female minds;--ev'n knowledge is a fool. / Nor can the laws of art, or nature fix, / Nor wise philosophy, the wondrous sex"
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: June, 1756
"But soul-rejoicing health again returns, / The blood meanders gentle in each vein, / The lamp of life renew'd with vigour burns, / And exil'd reason takes her seat again-- / Brisk leaps the heart, the mind's at large once more, / To love, to praise, to bless, to wonder and adore."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1756
"Tho' Rome's fell Star malignant shone, / When good Eliza rul'd this State, / On English hearts she plac'd her throne, / And in their happiness her Fate, / While blacker than the Tempests of the North, / The Papal Tyrant sent his curses forth."
preview | full record— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
Date: 1757
"Oh, son of genius! Friend of art! / Garrick, thou monarch of the heart!"
preview | full record— Boyce, Samuel (d. 1775)
Date: 1757-9
Neither reason nor advice can rule love
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]