Date: 1751, 1791
"The passions are a num'rous crowd, / Imperious, positive, and loud: / Curb these licentious sons of strife; / Hence chiefly rise the storms of life: / If they grow mutinous, and rave, / They are thy masters, thou their slave."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
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)
Date: 1752
"Weak, impotent, yet wishing to be free, / You are by much a greater Slave, than me; / A Slave, to ev'ry Gust that shakes your Mind, / Your Eyes broad open, and your Senses blind."
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1753
"The clouded minds are purify'd at last."
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1754
Storms may surprise the heart, the seat of reason and repose
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1754
There may be sunshine in the breast
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1755
"His wav'ring mind is in a whirlwind tost."
preview | full record— Mendez, Moses (1690 - c.1758)
Date: 1755
A beam of brightness may break on the mind and "drive errors cloud away / & make a calm in passions troubled sea"
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1757-9
Caprice veers like the Winds
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]
Date: 1761, 1765
Authors may "still, as by magic, Passion's inbred storm"
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)