Date: 1795
"Disdaining even the thought of flight or fear, / His life, his soul, by steady valor steel'd."
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1795
"Still to be serious, Pitt, before we part: / Let Mercy melt the mill-stone of thy heart."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1796
"John Bull, 'tis said, and 'tis most truly said, / Has evermore a windmill in his head: / Which still, as fashions, factions, fancies sway, / With every puff, is whiffled every way"
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
Date: w. 1766, 1796
"Little minds / Do judge of great things, like the purblind gnat, / That deems a fly, a monster"
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
Date: 1796
"Yet on the youthful mind th' impression cast / Of ancient glory shall for ever last."
preview | full record— Falconer, William (bap. 1732, d. 1770)
Date: 1796
"No drug, nor juice of all the acid tribe, / Can move the Tints, which Glassy Pores imbibe; / So no mean prejudice, no bribes, nor art, / Efface th' Impressions of an Upright Heart."
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
Date: 1796
"Thus Books are intellectual Aliment drest / For every appetite of every guest."
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
Date: 1796
"Too well, fair youth! thy lib'ral heart he knew; / A heart to Nature's warm impressions true!"
preview | full record— Falconer, William (bap. 1732, d. 1770)
Date: 1796
"These upheld the soul, / As ribb'd with triple steel"
preview | full record— Bruce, Michael (1746-1767)
Date: 1796
"E'en they th' impressive dart of love can feel, / Whose stubborn souls are sheath'd in triple steel."
preview | full record— Falconer, William (bap. 1732, d. 1770)