Date: 1779, 1781
"Pope foresaw the future efflorescence of imagery then budding in his mind, and resolved to spare no art or industry of cultivation."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1782
"Till then, old red-nos'd Wilson's art / Will hold its empire o'er my heart."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1782
"The wise philosopher tells us, that the soul of man is rasa tabula, like a white sheet of paper, out of which it must be more than common art to erase the first impressions"
preview | full record— Grose, John (bap. 1758, d. 1821)
Date: 1787
"Yet when he bawl'd for sense, he bawl'd, I wot, / For furniture the head had never got."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: August 1783
"Death broke at once the vital chain, / And free'd his soul the nearest way."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1783
"To work, my hearts of oak, to work; here the sun is half an hour high, and not a stroke struck yet."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1783
"I tremble at the impression this lovely girl has made upon my heart."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1783, 1838
"If Passion rule us, be that passion pride"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1783, 1838
If Reason rule us, it "bids us strive to raise / Our fallen hearts, and be like him we praise"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1783, 1838
"[N]aked vices, rude and unrefined" may "Exert their open empire o'er the mind"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)