Date: 1735-6
"While his the bloodless conquest of the heart, / Shouts without groan, and triumph without war"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1735-6
"Of one who, should the unkingly thirst of gold, / Or tyrant passions, or ambition, prompt, / Calls locust-armies o'er the blasted land:"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1734-1735
"Hark! she invites from city smoke and noise, / Vapours impure, and from impurer joys; / From various evils, that, with rage combin'd, / Untune the body, and pollute the mind."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1735, 1792
"Just so supreme, unmated, and alone, / The Soul assumes her intellectual throne"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1735, 1792
"Around their queen attendant spirits watch, / Each rising thought with prompt observance catch, / The tidings of internal passion spread, / And thro' each part the swift contagion shed"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
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: 1735, 1792
The mind "speeds her ministry abroad, / And rules obedient matter with a nod" as "The obsequious mass beneath her influence yields, /And even her will the unwieldy fabric wields"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1735, 1792
"Tho' winding paths" the soul's "sprightly envoys fly, / Or watchful in the frontier senses lie"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1735, 1792
[Allegories of taste, smell, sound, and vision.]
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1735, 1792
" Thro' nature traffick on, from pole to pole, / And stamp new worlds on thy dilated soul"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)