Date: 1747
"And where's the boasted liberty of man? / Chang'd are his lords indeed; and tyrant Lust / Usurps the just supremacy of Heav'n."
preview | full record— Cardinal Melchior de Polignac (1661-1741)
Date: 1747
"E'en stern ecclesiasticks laid aside / (To welcome him) their ruling passion, pride."
preview | full record— Gilbert, Thomas (bap. 1713, d. 1766)
Date: 1748
"Such callous Hearts to no Impression yield, / All-guarded with Corruption's seven-fold Shield;"
preview | full record— Warton, Thomas, the elder (1688-1745)
Date: 1748
"the Persian Bands / In fearful Wonder ask; What God unseen / Such Pow'r bestow'd, and steel'd a Woman's Heart"
preview | full record— Warton, Thomas, the elder (1688-1745)
Date: 1748
"These be now my Cares, / To leave the Muse for Virtue [...] but chief my Soul to steel / With adamantine Honour"
preview | full record— Warton, Thomas, the elder (1688-1745)
Date: 1748
Thought is "The hermit's solace in his cell"
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: 1748
Thought is "The fire that warms the poet's brain."
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: 1748
Thought is "The lover's heaven, or his hell."
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: 1748
"What, what is virtue, but repose of mind, / A pure ethereal calm, that knows no storm?"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1748
"Ten thousand great ideas fill'd his mind; / But with the clouds they fled, and left no trace behind."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)