Date: 1777, 1810
"And oft the bard's elastic mind / To lighter images inclined; / In concord with Anacreon's measure, / Courts the jovial gods of pleasure."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1777, 1810
"Well-pleased, in fancy he surveys, / With fancy's mimick tint pourtrays / The fate elysian of the swain, / Who, stranger to his nymph's disdain, / Feels the true zest of Cupid's reign, / His lasting joys enhanced by momentary pain."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1778
" In thee, by art, the demon stands confest, / But nature on thy soul has stamped the god."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1778, 1804
"But when that seal is first imprest, / When the young heart its pain shall try, / From the soft, yielding, trembling breast, / Oft seems the startled soul to fly."
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1780, 1781, 1788
"Two passions there by soft contention please, / The love of martial Fame, and learned Ease: / These friendly colours, exquisitely join'd, / Form the enchanting picture of thy mind."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1780
"Thy mind expanded to her empire's bound; / There every Science a firm station found."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1780
"But O! how rare benignant Virtue springs / In the blank bosom of despotic kings!"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1781
"[A]ll you've said / Seems to wear Reason's stamp."
preview | full record— Keate, George (1729-1797)
Date: 1781, 1791
"Could I thus stamp with guilt, sensations sprung / From thought most delicate"?
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1781, 1791
"Or when the burnish'd car by Phoebus roll'd, / Darts more intense it's rays of liquid gold, / Beneath some ivy-fringed cave reclined, / Fancy's bright visions rushing on thy mind, / With spirits bland, nursed by the genial powers, / Soothest with melodious notes the sultry hours!"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)