Date: 1759
"Minds slothful, like uncultivated Earth, / To Weeds of Vice, and Folly, give a Birth; / Silver, and Gold, for Want of proper Use, / Their Splendor lose, and cancrous Rust produce; / Streams owe their Purity, to active Speed, / If Waters stagnate, they Corruption breed."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1759
"Dissembling Love his Temper may conceal, / But Wedlock will his hidden Soul unvail; / So distant Ships, at Sea, wear false Disguise, / But show true Colors, when they seize a Prize."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1759
"Mark well the Passion, that most rules his Heart, / By courting that, you may rule him with Art; / You may his ruling Passion govern so, / 'Twill be your constant Friend, instead of Foe."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1759
"Your Mate will quit this Honour-blasting Vice, / If he would be reputed good, and wise; / Reason, her Throne usurp'd, again will claim, / And Lust of Gaming yield to Love of Fame."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1760
"If thus a golden crown can steel his heart, / O may I ne'er behold him while a king!"
preview | full record— Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)
Date: 1765
"Mere Affectation vainly would assert / A steady, lasting empire o'er the heart"
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)
Date: 1766
"So get these lines, and what they do evince, / By heart; and they may give you some impressions, / Both of salvation and of your transgressions;"
preview | full record— Nicol, Alexander (bap. 1703)
Date: 1767
God seals the truth on "our happy hearts"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1776
"But the greatest happiness of the greatest number requires, that they should be not only imagined but proved: and this they shall now be, in so far as natural probability, aided by whatever support it may be thought to receive from the character of the narrator, can gain credence, for the indica...
preview | full record— Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)
Date: 1777
"Parents may, perhaps, paint it to themselves: they may see (through the mirror of a sympathetic fancy) the poor widow receiving her child from the healing hand of the prophet--a child fresh blooming in the beauties of a second birth."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)