Date: 1724
"All my fierce passions rise with that reflection, / Inward they rage--a winding train takes fire, / The flashy blaze runs swift thro' ev'ry vein, / And my brain splits with agony!"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1724
"My thoughts are furies all!--and turn upon me! / I feel their whips!--They lash me with remorse! / My brain grows hot!--Hell glows in my mad bosom!"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1725
" He loaths the piece; condemns it; nor can find / The genuin stamp, and image of his mind"
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1726, 1753
"Love, in a chain of converse, bound mankind, / And polish'd, and awak'd the rugged mind."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1727
"Death's cold Hand arrests the Fears / That haunt the Coward's Mind"
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1727
"Numps was rough, / No Heart of Oak was half so tough, / And true as Steel"
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1727
"Be husht ye Winds, be still ye Seas, / Ye Billows sleep at ease, / And in your rocky Caverns rest, / Let all be Calm as the Great Hero's Breast."
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1727, 1787
"Let us the soul in even balance bear; / Content with what we have, and what we are!"
preview | full record— Welsted, Leonard (1688-1747)
Date: w. 1707, published 1728-9
Dulness is "the safe Opiate of the Mind."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1728
Say, "How Fancy every Shape puts on? / How kindling Sparks her Form compose, / And whence the constant-shining Train, / That Mem'ry, or Experience shows?"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)