Date: 1733-4
"A mightier Pow'r the strong direction sends, / And sev'ral Men impels to sev'ral ends. / Like varying winds, by other passions tost, / This drives them constant to a certain coast."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1734
"My frame of nature is a ruffled sea, / And my disease the tempest."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1734
"Is then my heart to all the world beside / Softer than melting wax or summer snow, / But to myself harder than adamant?"
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1734
"I'm in a raging storm, / Where seas and skies are blended, while my soul / Like some light worthless chip of floating cork / Is tost from wave to wave."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1735, 1763
"Each publick passion bound to endless frost, / Each deed of social worth for ever lost."
preview | full record— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)
Date: 1735, 1792
"The blood tempestuous, pours a flushing wave" and "With raging swell alternate pantings rise"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1737
"Unless the Mind be purg'd, what Storms arise!"
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
"I say, I see it was so evenly carried without Prejudice, (whether it were a true Accusation of the one part, or a Practice of a false Accusation on the other) as shewed plainly that his majesty's Judgment was tanquam tabula rasa, as a clean Pair of tables, and his Ear tanquam janua aperta, as a ...
preview | full record— Holles, John, Earl of Clare (ca. 1565-1637)
Date: 1737 (also 1738, 1743, reprinted 1754)
"But, if dull fogs invade the head, / That mem'ry minds not what is read."
preview | full record— Green, Matthew (1696-1737)
Date: 1737 (also 1738, 1743, reprinted 1754)
"Here nymphs from hollow oaks relate / The dark decrees and will of fate, / And dreams beneath the spreading beach / Inspire, and docile fancy teach; / While, soft as breezy breath of wind, / Impulses rustle thro' the mind."
preview | full record— Green, Matthew (1696-1737)