Date: 1745
"Drink early then, my Friend, at Reason's Bowl, / And fill with wholesome Draughts thy youthful Soul. / If Wine or Gall the Recent Vessel stains, / Each Scent alike the faithful Cask retains."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1752
Pleasure is "the secret Spring that actuates man"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1765
"And my heart, within me burning, / Is become like melting wax."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1775
"How like a wanton lamb that careless play'd, / The shepherd and the fold forgotten quite, / My vagrant soul, in search of vain delight, / Many long years from her true Shepherd stray'd!"
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1788
"Our mind's unhelm'd, our attributes decay--"
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)