Date: 1741
"No Window to Her Bosom did we need, / The Goodness there appear'd in ev'ry Deed"
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1741
"Search each his own Breast first, read that with Care, / And mark if no one Crime be written There!"
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1741
"For Thou who, faulty, wrong'st another's Fame, / Howe'er so great and dignify'd thy Name, / The Muse shall drag thee forth to publick Shame; / Pluck the fair Feathers from thy Swan-skin Heart, / And shew thee black and guileful as thou art."
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: w. 1732, 1743, 1752
Reason may "fix it's Empire o'er [one's] Heart"
preview | full record— Hammond, James (1710-1742)
Date: 1752
"The Man, who sharpen'd first the warlike Steel, / How fell and deadly was his iron Heart"
preview | full record— Hammond, James (1710-1742)
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: September 30, 1769?
"To nature and the passions dead, / A brothel is his house and bed; / To fan the flame of warm desire, / And after wanton in the fire, / He thinks a labour; and his parts / Were not designed to conquer hearts."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: September 30, 1769
"A sage philosopher, to try / What pupil saw with reason's eye,"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"When in the venerable gothic hall, / Where fetters rattle, evidences bawl, / Puzzled in thought by equity or law, / Into their inner room his senses draw; / There, as they snore in consultation deep, / The foolish vulgar deem him fast asleep."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"Since, in the steps of clerical degree, / All through the telescope of fancy see."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)