Date: 1746
The mind may be eased by disclosing "Our flow of pleasures, and our stream of woes"
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Date: 1746
"As river's, by the sun's imbibing ray, / Are in summer quite exhal'd away" so to are "passions when confin'd to selfish love"
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Date: 1746
The soul may have "sallies, shifts, and eddies" that roll "like a troubled ocean"
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Date: 1746
"We are "Tost on the surges--which our passions raise"
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Date: 1746, 1749
"For Peace and War succeed by Turns in Love, / And while tempestuous these Emotions roll, / And float with blind Disorder in the Soul."
preview | full record— Francis, Philip (1708-1773)
Date: w. 1740, 1748
"But when your early Care shall have design'd / To plan the Soul and mould the waxen Mind; / When you shall pour upon his tender Breast / Ideas that must stand an Age's Test, / Oh! there imprint with strongest deepest dye / The lovely form of Goddess LIBERTY!"
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1751
"Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, / And froze the genial current of the soul."
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1752, 1791
"Thy appetites in easy tides / (As reason's luminary guides) / Soft flow--no wind can work them to a storm, / Correctly quick, dispassionately warm."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)