Date: 1742
"Not the gross act alone employs her pen; / She reconnoitres Fancy's airy band, / A watchful foe! the formidable spy, / Listening, o'erhears the whispers of our camp; / Our dawning purposes of heart explores, / And steals our embryos of iniquity."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
""Reason with Inclination why at war? / Why sense of guilt? Why Conscience up in arms?"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"[T]hus pale revenge / Unsheaths her murderous dagger; and the hands / Of lust and rapine, with unholy arts, / Watch to o'erturn the barrier of the laws / That keeps them from their prey: thus all the plagues / The wicked bear, or o'er the trembling scene / The tragic muse discloses, under shapes...
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)