Date: 1765
"Mere Affectation vainly would assert / A steady, lasting empire o'er the heart"
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)
Date: 1768
Fable is a mirror in which an image of the mind may be presented
preview | full record— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)
Date: 1773
"There, whilst the vault resounds my plaintive sigh, / In deathful echoes, shall Despondence bring / The saddest visions on the mind's wan eye, / That ever wav'd on Fancy's blackest wing"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1773, 1894-1895
"The human Spirit, when it burns and shines, / 'Lamp of Jehovah" Solomon defines. / Now, as a Vessel, to contain the Whole, / This 'Lamp' denotes the Body, Oil the Soul"
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1775
"Need we the influence of the northern star / To string our nerves and steel our hearts to war? "
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1780
"Not an indifferency to, or equilibrium betwixt right and wrong; for that had been to have a mixed, or no quality, a mere rasa tabula, to be impressed things extrinsical to it, without any understanding and choice of its own: Both which were foreign to the primitive state of man."
preview | full record— Manners, Nicholas
Date: 1782
"Affliction's iron hand my breast invades, / And Death's dread dart is ever in my sight."
preview | full record— Scott, John, of Amwell (1730-1783)
Date: 1789
"[T]he important overthrow of the common enemy of our religious liberty ... must be engraven on our hearts in the very deepest characters of gratitude and praise"
preview | full record— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)
Date: 1789
"There northern Kametzchatka's dreary strand, / And frozen Isles, your daring toils demand: / Again your British hearts of steel"
preview | full record— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)
Date: 1789
"Peace and Hope, sweet twins of Virtue, / Shall be strangers to thy breast"
preview | full record— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)