Date: 1737
"'If passion once invade the female mind, / '(Tenacious sex!) in vain would mortal art / 'Wrench the warm weapon from the bleeding heart."
preview | full record— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)
Date: 1737
One may "grateful bow / To those benignant pow'rs, who fram'd thy mind / In crimes unfruitful, never to admit / The black impression of a guilty thought."
preview | full record— Glover, Richard (1712-1785)
Date: February 1738
One may be " In State most desponding, by the Light of a Taper, / With Thoughts dull and dark as my Wax, or my Paper"
preview | full record— Tickell, Thomas (1685-1740)
Date: 1738
"The studious Eye, that runs [William's] Labours o'er, / Shall print his Image on the grateful Mind"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1738
"Matchless Numbers! surely blest / Which cou'd touch that Iron Breast, / That ne'er before had Pity felt"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1738
"The Grecian Prince the Love of Virtue taught: / With Fortitude and Patience steel'd his Breast."
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1738
"While healthful Exercise the Mind unbends, / And Health and Study serve each other's Ends: / I view the happy School,--and thence presage / The fair Succession of a rising Age."
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1738
"Happy, he who can unbind / The Chains that clog the fetter'd Mind!"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1738, 1792
"But soon a beam, emissive from above, / Shed mental day, and touch'd the heart with love; / Gave jealous rage to know Divine Controul, / And ruled the tempest rising in the soul."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1738, 1792
"Love ... Give the soft sex to loathe inglorious rest, / String the weak arm, and steel the snowy breast!"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)