Date: 1755
Samuel Johnson has a "well-turn'd mind" and a "genius pure, as gold refin'd"
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: 1755
"My heart was free from care: / Love was a stranger to my breast"
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: 1758
Truth is the "Great queen of harmony ... whose moral scepter rules the hearts of kings"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1758
"Deep in their soules ye fair impression lay, / Deep-tracd & never to be worn away."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1758
"If at the type our dreaming soules awake, / & Hannahs strains their Just impression make"
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1764
"Dead Letters, thus with Living Notions fraught, / Prove to the Soul the Telescopes of Thought"
preview | full record— Grierson [née Crawley], Constantia (1704/5-1732)
Date: 1766
"Love laugh'd, and, sure of conquest, wing'd a dart / Unerring, to her undefended heart."
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Date: 1766
"To stamp Fraternity on gen'rous hearts: [...] Celestial Charity to-night descends"
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Date: 1766
"Fancy leads the fetter'd senses / Captives to her fond controul; / Merit may have rich pretences, / But 'tis Fancy fires the soul."
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Date: 1766
"Far beyond the bonds of meaning / Fancy flies, a Fairy queen!"
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)