Date: 1786
"A festive glass the drooping mind requires, / His far-off phiz keen Fancy's eye descries"
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Date: 1787
"Wisdom unseals charm'd Reason's drowsy eyes."
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1787
"Whate'er pursuits the attentive mind employ / Must mark our manners with a strong alloy"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1787
"The sons of Rome ne'er felt the soft control / Of milky kindness stealing o'er the soul, / Nor did their nerves to pleasure's touch awake / Of gentler thoughts the mild impression take;"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1787
"The shield, an emblem of thy soul, displays / Truth, equity and wisdom, hand in hand."
preview | full record— Glover, Richard (1712-1785)
Date: 1787
"For scenes that frequent shapes of Death impart / Arm the firm breast, and steel the manly heart"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1787
"To curse the hearts that selfish maxims steel, / And execrate the effects of patriot zeal.--"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1787
"But when by various wrongs your bosom's steel'd, / Your groaning country calling to the field, / And 'twixt the foe and you the uncertain scale / Of fight must shew whose fortune shall prevail"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1787
"May Europe's race the generous toil pursue, / And Truth's broad mirror spread to every view; / Awake to Reason's voice the savage mind, / Check Error's force, and civilize mankind."
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1787
"But does not Reason's faithful mirror she / The future prospect of distress and woe,/ And point what dangers modern softness wait / In the sad tale of Rome's declining state?"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)