Date: August 1745
"Come fill the glass, my hearts of gold, / To Britain's Heroes brisk and bold;"
preview | full record— Warton, Thomas, the younger (1728-1790)
Date: w. August, 1745; 1822
"Above the thirst of gold, if in his heart / Ambition govern'd, Av'rice had no part."
preview | full record— Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury (1708-1759)
Date: 1745
"Thrice shou'd Rebellion rear her Head, / With Front of Brass, but Heart of Lead"
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1745
"Thou'lt weep, I know thy gentle Soul, my Fair, / No senseless Steel, no rugged Flint dwells there."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1745
"And tho' each Day increas'd his curious Store / Thought his capacious Soul had room for more"
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1745
"All these Pleasures of his Breast should die, / The Beams of Science from his Soul retire / And fade, extinguish'd by a nobler Fire, / As kindled Wood, howe'er its Flames may rise, / When the bright Sun appears, in Embers dies."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1745
"Minerva sudden from his Soul was fled, / And Venus reign'd successive in her stead."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1745
"Soon as his Breast receiv'd the potent Ray, / Whate'er possest it, instantly gave way; / As in the Wood before the Lightning's Beam, / Perish the Leaves, and the whole Tree is Flame."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1745
"Then tell me, is your soul intire? / Does wisdom calmly hold her throne? / Then can you question each desire, / Bid this remain, and that begone?"
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1745
"Truth stamps conviction in the mind, / All doubts and fears are left behind, / And peace and joy at once an entrance find."
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)