Date: 1741
"Poor Mind, who heard all with extreme moderation, / Thought it now time to speak, and make her allegation: / ''Tis I that, methinks, have most cause to complain, / Who am cramped and confined like a slave in a chain.'"
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1741
"Early instruct your tender Youth / In Heav'n's unerring Law of Truth, / Engrave it on their Mind."
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1741, 1753
"Tho' smiles, and tears, obey thy moving skill, / And passion's ruffled empire waits thy will?"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1741
"'I've a friend,' answers Mind, 'who, though slow, is yet sure, / And will rid me at last of your insolent power: / Will knock down your walls, the whole fabric demolish, / And at once your strong holds and my slavery abolish: / And while in your dust your dull ruins decay, / I'll snap off my cha...
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1741
"But self-conceitedness does reign / In every mortal mind."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1738, 1742
"Ye Princes by destructive Passions led / Who mount without a Blush th'adult'rous Bed / Who hear your Subjects all around complain / Of Wrongs, repeated Wrongs, on Land and Main, / While all your Counsels are yourselves to please, / And while ye batten in inglorious Ease, / 'Tis Virtue only can...
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1738, 1742
"In doing these ye act the princely Part, / And build your Empires in the People's Heart."
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1742
"It makes us wander; wander earth around / To fly that tyrant, Thought."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"Lorenzo! no; the thought of death indulge; / Give it its wholesome empire! let it reign, / That kind chastiser of thy soul in joy!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"Its reign will spread thy glorious conquests far, / And still the tumults of thy ruffled breast: / Auspicious era! golden days, begin!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)