Date: 1724
A man may be ruled by "Honour and true Reason," "Which makes Submission to his Will / Nae Slav'ry, but a just Delight"
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Date: 1724
Shafts more subtile, may be darted from the Eye and "Thro' softer Hearts with silent Conquest fly"
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Date: 1728
"Your Present's most gentile and kind, / Baith rich and shining as your Mind"
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1733
"Tho ane Enemie captive I viewed your desert / which darted a conquest on my yielding heart"
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Date: 1734
"Such the Dalrymples, Father and the Son, / Whose virtuous Minds no servile Chains can wear."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: w. December 1742, 1760
"Honour erected in thy breast its throne, / And kind Humanity was all thy own."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1743
"Friendship! Mysterious Cement of the Soul!"
preview | full record— Blair, Robert (1699-1746)
Date: 1743
"In that dread Moment, how the frantick Soul / Raves round the Walls of her Clay Tenement, / Runs to each Avenue, and shrieks for Help, / But shrieks in vain!"
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Date: 1743
"For part they must: Body and Soul must part; / Fond Couple! link'd more close than wedded Pair."
preview | full record— Blair, Robert (1699-1746)
Date: 1743
"This wings its Way to its Almighty Source, / The Witness of its Actions, now its Judge: / That drops into the dark and noisome Grave, / Like a disabled Pitcher of no Use."
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