Date: 1766, 1806
"Let this pervade at length thy heart of steel; / Yet, yet return, nor blush, Oh man! to feel."
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1766
"Curse not the king, yea, no not in thy thought, / Nor in thy closet curse the rich for ought"
preview | full record— Nicol, Alexander (bap. 1703)
Date: 1766
"Her breast is like a cabinet of goud, / Wherein the richest jewels are bestow'd"
preview | full record— Nicol, Alexander (bap. 1703)
Date: 1766
"My Heart is my own / And a Stranger to Care"
preview | full record— Carey, George Saville (1743-1807)
Date: 1766
"We should then find that creatures, whose souls are held as dross, only wanted the hand of a refiner; we should then find that wretches, now stuck up for long tortures, lest luxury should feel a momentary pang, might, if properly treated, serve to sinew the state in times of danger."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1766
"Cecil is infinitely desirous that King James, as he favours him, should write the letter of satisfaction concerning 40 by the very next dispatch; for it should seem to me, by secret intimation from Cecil this afternoon, that the party is a little tickle, and like rasa tabula, that is, rea...
preview | full record— Howard, Howard, Earl of Northampton (1540-1614)
Date: 1766
"Love laugh'd, and, sure of conquest, wing'd a dart / Unerring, to her undefended heart."
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Date: 1766
"To stamp Fraternity on gen'rous hearts: [...] Celestial Charity to-night descends"
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Date: 1766
"I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that the lessons of wisdom have never such a power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be ...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1766
"If society be formed, by the communication of ideas and sentiments, speech, is, undoubtedly, its most essential and most graceful band, being, at once, the pencil of the mind, the image of its operations, and, the interpreter of the heart."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)