Date: 1775
"See, in their course, each transitory thought / Fixed by his touch a lasting essence take; / Each dream, in fancy's airy colouring wrought, / To local symmetry and life awake!"
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1775
"My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; / And in my breast the imperfect joys expire."
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1775
"What numbers censure, but how few judge right, / On subjects, which demand the soul's keen sight"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1775
"Need we the influence of the northern star / To string our nerves and steel our hearts to war? "
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1775
"Let Jervase gratis paint, and Frowd / Save Three-pence, and his Soul"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1775
"Of vulgar minds why nature shuns the praise, / And why to yours her every charm displays; / Whether the happy strokes of beauty shine / On fancy's mirror, or in HOGARTH's line; / Whether to habit, mode, or place confin'd, / Or fixt a general truth in every mind; / Discussions these will wing our...
preview | full record— Shepherd, Richard (1731/2-1809)
Date: 1775
"Before the queen an oval mirror stands, / The curious labor of her active hands; / Ample its size; of wondrous texture wrought; / With pow'r endu'd, surpassing human thought."
preview | full record— Rack, Edmund (1735-1787)
Date: 1775
"On this deceptive mirror FANCY gaz'd; / For in its field she saw whate'er she pleas'd: / Whate'er in thought her fertile brain design'd, / (The varying labours of her changeful mind,) / Whate'er she wills, within its orb she spies, / True to her wish the airy visions rise."
preview | full record— Rack, Edmund (1735-1787)
Date: w. c. 1751, 1775
"With darts and flames some arm his [Love's] feeble hands, / His infant brow with regal honours crown; / Whilst vanquished Reason, bound with silken bands, / Meanly submissive, falls below his throne."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: w. c. 1751, 1775
"Each fabling poet sure alike mistakes / The gentle power that reigns o'er tender hearts."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)