Date: 1763

"Think but one hour, and, to thy Conscience led / By Reason's hand, bow down and hang thy head; / Think on thy private life, recal thy Youth, / View thyself now, and own with strictest truth, / That SELF hath drawn Thee from fair Virtue's way / Farther than Folly would have dar'd to stray, / And ...

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

Date: 1763

"Quit then, in prudence quit, that idle train / Of toys, which have so long abus'd thy brain, / And captive led thy pow'rs; with boundless will / Let SELF maintain her state and empire still."

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

Date: 1763

"No--'tis the tale which angry Conscience tells, / When She with more than tragic horror swells / Each circumstance of guilt; when stern, but true, / She brings bad actions forth into review; / And, like the dread hand-writing on the wall, / Bids late Remorse awake at Reason's call, / Arm'd at al...

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

Date: 1763

"May I be scorn'd by ev'ry man of worth, / Wander, like Cain, a vagabond on earth, / Bearing about a Hell in my own mind, / Or be to SCOTLAND for my life confin'd, / If I am one amongst the many known, / Whom SHELBURNE fled, and CALCRAFT blush'd to own."

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

Date: December, 1763; 1774

"'Tis Conscience, a reward alone, / Conscience, who plac'd on Virtue's throne, / Eyes raging men, or raging seas, / Undaunted, firm, with heart at ease."

— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)

Date: December, 1763; 1774

"Thus his own eyes the Bigot blinds, / To shut out light from human minds."

— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)

Date: 1763

"The Judge within the Mind, shall ev'ry Cause / Impartial weigh, and cancel useless Laws"

— Hoyland, Francis (1727-1786)

Date: 1763

"Nor hope the Conquest of that stubborn Heart"

— Hoyland, Francis (1727-1786)

Date: 1763, 1765; 1766

"Throw Envy, Folly, Prejudice behind! / And yield to Truth the empire of the mind"

— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)

Date: 1763, 1765; 1766

"Powers that should spread in Reason's orient ray, / How are they darken'd, and debarr'd the day!"

— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)