Date: Performed Dec 1756, published 1757
"Clouds, all the while have hung upon thy brow, / Nor broke, nor parted by one gleam of joy."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)
Date: Performed Dec 1756, published 1757
"Darkly a project peers upon my mind, / Like the red moon when rising in the east, / Cross'd and divided by strange-colour'd clouds."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)
Date: 1759
"Vengeance!-- / That word has shot its light'ning thro' my soul."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1759
"He smiles contempt; as if some inward joy, / Like the sun lab'ring in a night of clouds, / Shot forth its glad'ning unresisted beams, / Chearing the face of woe."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1759
"Imlac was delighted to find that the sage's understanding was breaking through its mists, and resolved to detain him from the planets till he should forget his task of ruling them, and reason should recover its original influence."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1760-7
The "little interests below" may "rise up and perplex the faculties of our upper regions, and encompass them about with clouds and thick darkness."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1760-7
"So that upon his first setting out, the brisk gale of his spirits, as you will imagine, ran him foul ten times in a day of some body's tackling; and as the grave and more slow-paced were oftenest in his way,—you may likewise imagine, 'twas with such he had generally the ill luck to get the most ...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1760-7
"But here, you must distinguish--the thought floated only in Dr. Slop's mind, without sail or ballast to it, as a simple proposition; millions of which, as your worship knows, are every day swiming quietly in the middle of the thin juice of a man's understanding, without being carried backwards o...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1761
"My Soul is tost / Upon a sea of blood, whose stormy channel / My lab'ring bark must pass, e're it can reach / That land of Peace, to which its Hopes are bound."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1761
"Soon as the guilty passion is allay'd, / The green and morbid colour of our souls / Is chang'd to virgin white; a gentle breeze / Of pity springs within us."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)