Date: 1744
"And what is Reason? Be she thus defined: / Reason is upright stature in the soul."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"That tyrant, Hope, mark how she domineers: / She bids us quit realities for dreams; / Safety and peace, for hazard and alarm: / That tyrant o'er the tyrants of the soul."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"Hope, like a cordial, innocent, though strong, / Man's heart at once inspirits and serenes."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1752, 1791
"Is apathy, is heart of steel, / Nor ear to hear, nor sense to feel."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1752, 1791
"Thy appetites in easy tides / (As reason's luminary guides) / Soft flow--no wind can work them to a storm, / Correctly quick, dispassionately warm."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1754
Two charming maids may be "By nature form'd to conquer hearts"
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1762
"What but the casting in of grace / This stony, iron heart, can raise, / To heavenly turn my earthly love, / And lift my soul to things above"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1767
"Yet, to the stoic apathy estrang'd, / Thou canst, with steady courage, probe to th' quick / The wound thou mean'st to cure; thou canst reprove / With all the sweet persuasion of esteem: / And give a momentary pang, to free / The worthy mind from its ignoble chain."
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1770?
There are "Some, whose blank minds, no spark of mercy knew."
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)