Date: 1775
"My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; / And in my breast the imperfect joys expire."
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1780, 1781, 1788
"Thy simple diction, free from glaring art, / With sweet allurement steals upon the heart, / Pure, as the rill, that Nature's hand refines; / Clear, as thy harmony of soul, it shines."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1782
The swell of pity may not be confined with "the scanty limits of the mind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
Time is a river that fails to enrich the mind and "leaves a dreary waste behind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1784
"Thy piercing thought / Unaided saw each movement of the mind, / As skilful artists view the small machine, / The secret springs and nice dependencies, / And to thy mimic scenes, by fancy wrought / To such a wond'rous shape, th'impassion'd breast / In floods of grief, or peals of laughter bow'd, ...
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1785
"The fluctuant mind, by various passions tost, / Now rides aloft, and now immerg'd, is lost"
preview | full record— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)
Date: January 23, 1787, 1788
"Whelm'd with such violence of woe, / Would melt a heart of steel, / Which only those who love can know, / Who lose can only feel."
preview | full record— Arley [Miles Peter Andrews (1742- 814)?]
Date: 1788
"Hence at each sound imagination glows; / Hence his warm lay with softest sweetness flows; / Melting it flows, pure, numerous, strong and clear, / And fills the impassioned heart and lulls the harmonious ear."
preview | full record— Collins, William (1721-1759)
Date: 1788
"I feel the swelling raptures roll / In surging tides upon my soul"
preview | full record— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)