Date: 1742
"A night that glooms us in the noon-tide ray, / And wraps our thought, at banquets, in the shroud."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1743
"A time there is, when, like a thrice-told tale, / Long-rifled Life of sweet can yield no more, / But from our comment on the comedy, / Pleasing reflections on parts well-sustain'd, / Or purposed emendations where we fail'd, / Or hopes of plaudits from our candid Judge, / When, on their exit, sou...
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Where virtue, rising from the awful depth / Of truth's mysterious bosom, doth forsake / The unadorn'd condition of her birth; / And dress'd by fancy in ten thousand hues, / Assumes a various feature, to attract, / With charms responsive to each gazer's eye, / The hearts of men."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"What? like a storm from their capacious bed / The sounding seas o'erwhelming, when the might / Of these eruptions, working from the depth / Of man's strong apprehension, shakes his frame / Even to the base; from every naked sense / Of pain or pleasure dissipating all / Opinion's feeble coverings...
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Moreover, from without / When oft the same society of forms / In the same order have approach'd his mind, / He deigns no more their steps with curious heed / To trace; no more their features or their garb / He now examines; but of them and their / Condition, as with some diviner's tongue, / Affi...
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1747
"Since here defective, Heaven be so kind / With never-fading charms to dress my mind"
preview | full record— Teft, Elizabeth (fl. 1741-7)
Date: 1748
"But how will this dismantled soul appear,/ When stripped of all it lately held so dear,/ Forced from its prison of expiring clay, / Afraid and shivering at the doubtful way?"
preview | full record— Leapor, Mary (1722-1746)
Date: 1752
"To charm his reason dress your mind, / Till love shall be with friendship joined."
preview | full record— Clark [née Lewis], Esther (bap. 1716, d. 1794)
Date: 1755
"But, must the Soul, uncloth'd and cold, / Appear, her Maker to behold? / Or shall the gaping Grave restore, / The Robe of Flesh which once she wore?"
preview | full record— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)
Date: 1755
"Those would seem Gentlemen! who strut the Mall, / In Waistcoats lac'd on Sundays--troll about, / Leaving their Minds undrest--all Show without."
preview | full record— Arnold, Cornelius (b. 1714, d. in or after 1758)