Date: 1727
"Numps was rough, / No Heart of Oak was half so tough, / And true as Steel"
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1727
"Be husht ye Winds, be still ye Seas, / Ye Billows sleep at ease, / And in your rocky Caverns rest, / Let all be Calm as the Great Hero's Breast."
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1735
"The Soul / Of Man alone, that Particle divine, / Escapes the Wreck of Worlds, when all Things fail."
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Date: 1756
"I hardly believe there is in any language a metaphor more appositely applied, or more elegantly expressed, than this of the effects of the warmth of fancy."
preview | full record— Warton, Joseph (bap. 1722, d. 1800)