Date: 1767
"E'er since my tortur'd mind has known no rest; / Peace is become a stranger to my breast:"
preview | full record— Fawkes, Francis (1720-1777); Theocritus (3rd. Century. B.C.)
Date: 1791
"Hail to each ancient sacred shade / Of those, who gave the Muses aid, / Skill'd verse mysterious to unfold, / And set each brilliant thought in gold."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: February 19, 1798
"Whether material substance unrefined, / Owns the strong impulse of instinctive mind, / Which to one centre points diverging lines, / Confounds, refracts, invig'rates, and combines?"
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)