Date: 1739
"But if you have your Masters within your corrupt Mind, how are you Freer than this Slave, who is frighted to his Business by his Master's Frown, and Lash."
preview | full record— Sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738)
Date: 1741
"But Thou shalt rise superior to their Arts, / And fix Thy Empire in a People's Hearts."
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1742
As an artist pours and extracts gold from a mold, "So virtuous Education forms the Mind, / And leaves for Life the beauteous Stamp behind!"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1742
"Where heav'nly Reason with her temperate Light, / Teaches th'unbiass'd Mind to judge aright / There Property secure enjoys her own; / There Conscience sits untroubl'd on her Throne"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1746, 1749
"Such Rancour this, of such a poisonous Vein, / As never, never, shall my Paper stain: / Much less infect my Heart"
preview | full record— Francis, Philip (1708-1773)
Date: 1746, 1749
"For the hurt Eye an instant Cure you find; Then why neglect, for Years, the sickening Mind?"
preview | full record— Francis, Philip (1708-1773)
Date: 1746, 1749
"For Peace and War succeed by Turns in Love, / And while tempestuous these Emotions roll, / And float with blind Disorder in the Soul."
preview | full record— Francis, Philip (1708-1773)
Date: 1748
The sorrowing soul is tempestuous
preview | full record— Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)
Date: 1748
The body is a "frail building falling to decay"
preview | full record— Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)