Date: 1775
"Then Peace shall heal this wounded breast, / That pants to see another blest, / From selfish passion pure."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1777
In "the dark maeanders" of Vice's "foul abode ... busy Spirits forge, with curious art,/ The triple plates of brass, to guard the heart / From Reason's bold assault"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1777
In Vice's "foul abode ... hellish ministers with fatal care / From baneful drugs the potent juice prepare; / Whose dead'ning posset dulls the mental sense
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1777, 1793
"Hail, sacred solitude! These are thy works, / True source of good supreme! Thy blest effects /Already on my mind's delighted eye / Open beneficent"
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1778
"To melancholy thoughts awakes the soul, / And lulls the mind to contemplation's dream"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1779
"Hope delayed fatigues the mind, / And drinks the spirits up"
preview | full record— Newton, John (1725-1807)
Date: 1782
"Faults in the life breed errors in the brain"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
"To captivate admiring Fancy's eyes, / She bids celestial decorations rise; / But, as a playful and capricious child / Frowns at the splendid toy on which it smiled; / So wayward Fancy now with scorn surveys / Those specious Miracles she lov'd to praise; / Still fond of change, and fickle Fashion...
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1782
"Rough annoyance" may rankle in the mind
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)