Date: 1739
"Passions enslave, and servile cares oppress"
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1739
"Fraud, rapine, murder, guilt's long horrid train, / Distracted nature's anarchy maintain."
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1739
"But as the moon reflecting borrow'd day, /Sheds on our shadow'd world a feeble ray: /Some scatter'd beams of Reason law contains, /While Order's rule must be enforc'd by pains"
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1739, 1741
"Tho' Crouds may change, unfaithful as the Wind! / Can They depose the Monarc from his Mind?"
preview | full record— Ogle, George (1704-1746)
Date: 1739, 1741
"Great is the Empire of an honest Heart"
preview | full record— Ogle, George (1704-1746)
Date: 1739, 1741
"Fortune may change the State, not change the Soul"
preview | full record— Ogle, George (1704-1746)
Date: 1739
"But if you have your Masters within your corrupt Mind, how are you Freer than this Slave, who is frighted to his Business by his Master's Frown, and Lash."
preview | full record— Sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738)
Date: October, 1739
"Bid Fancy quit her fairy cell, / In all her colours drest / While prompt her sallies to control, / Reason, the judge, recalls the soul / To Truth's severest test."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: October, 1739
"That last best effort of [Science's] skill, / To form the life, and rule the will, / Propitious power! impart."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: October, 1739
"Teach me to cool my passion's fires, / Make me the judge of my desires / The master of my heart."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)