Date: 1756
"O take me! stamp me on thy breast! / Deep let the image be imprest!"
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Date: 1757
"Another tells how "melts his heart, 'Like wax'"
preview | full record— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)
Date: 1757
" To trace the actions of the good and great: / And stamp bright virtue's image on the heart"
preview | full record— Boyce, Samuel (d. 1775)
Date: 1757
"But has not Hatred found a part, / Deep lodg'd the cavern of thy Heart, / Or started from thine eyes?"
preview | full record— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)
Date: 1759
Woes may haunt the mind (but the Gods may give "cruel Phantoms to the Wind"
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1761, 1765
"If Prejudices rule with tyrant sway, / Teach them the voice of Reason to obey."
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)
Date: 1761, 1765
"Labour and Want (unhospitable twain) / Chill not the current in Life's salient vein; / Nor damp the spirits, else of sprightly cast, / Nor check the nobler passions of the breast; / Nor blunt the fine Sensation's tender edge, / Which man's chief pride philosophers allege. / Thus some fair ...
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)
Date: 1761, 1765
"A taste, improv'd by Education, finds / Pleasures where none appear to ruder minds; / Scenes, where the croud but few attractions see, / Affect it in an exquisite degree: / As telescopes, the finer ground, convey / More striking beauties by the visual ray; / Or magnets, as prepar'd the mor...
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)