Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"There are whom heav'n has blest with store of wit, / Yet want as much again to manage it; / For wit and judgment ever are at strife, / Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1753, 1770
"Tho' liv'd he now he might appeal with scorn / To Lords, Knights, 'Squires and Doctors, yet unborn; / Or justly mad to Moloch's burning fane / Devote the choicest children of his brain."
preview | full record— Armstrong, John (1708/9-1779)
Date: 1767
"E'er since my tortur'd mind has known no rest; / Peace is become a stranger to my breast:"
preview | full record— Fawkes, Francis (1720-1777); Theocritus (3rd. Century. B.C.)