Date: 1735
"The Bard whom pilf'red Pastorels renown, / Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown, / Just writes to make his barrenness appear, / And strains, from hard-bound brains, eight lines a year."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1735
"What is the blooming Tincture of a Skin, / To Peace of Mind? To Harmony within?"
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1735, 1745
"No; not as Men / Each other see; but with Angelick Ken, / With the Mind's Eye. Ev'n to Corporeal Sight, / With Emanations of transcendent Light, / He who is God, as well as Man, shall shine; / His glorious Body darting Rays divine"
preview | full record— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)
Date: 1736
"But, as a Child, in Thought, chews o'er / The Sweetmeats, which he eat before; / So in his Mind Alexis keeps / The dear Impression of her Lips:"
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1737 (also 1738, 1743, reprinted 1754)
"Curst with such souls of base alloy, / As can possess, but not enjoy, / Debarr'd the pleasure to impart / By av'rice, sphincter of the heart, / Who wealth, hard earn'd by guilty cares, / Bequeath untouch'd to thankless heirs."
preview | full record— Green, Matthew (1696-1737)
Date: 1737
"Talk what you will of Taste, my Friend, you'll find, / Two of a Face, as soon as of a Mind."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1739
"Thy wounds upon my heart impress, / Nor [a]ught shall the loved stamp efface"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1740
"How bruised and scarified! how deep the wound! / Senseless, of life no symptom to be found!"
preview | full record— Dixon, Sarah (1671/2-1765)
Date: 1741
"Says Body to Mind, ''Tis amazing to see, / We're so nearly related yet never agree, / But lead a most wrangling strange sort of life, / As great plagues to each other as husband and wife.'"
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1741
"What tho' you damn one Offspring of his Brain? / Prolific Dullness quickly spawns again: / This Monster crush'd, another strait appears, / Head after Head the sprouting Hydra rears"
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)