Date: 1746, 1793
"Yet, could'st thou in that dreadful hour, / On my rack'd soul all Lethe pour, / Or fan me with the gelid breeze, / That chains in ice th' indignant seas."
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1746
"There let the classic Page thy fancy lead / Thro rural Scenes; such as the Mantuan Swain / Paints in the matchless Harmony of Song. / Or catch thyself the Landskip, gliding swift / Athwart Imagination's vivid Eye."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1748
"When in the Hall of Smoke they congress hold, / And the sage berry, sun-burnt Mocha bears, / Has clear'd their inward eye: then, smoke-enroll'd, / Their oracles break forth mysterious as of old."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1748
"But more he search'd the mind, and roused from sleep / Those moral seeds whence we heroic actions reap."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1748
"But here, instead, is foster'd every ill, / Which or distemper'd minds or bodies know."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1755, 1836
One is mistaken if he hopes to find "In shades a med'cine for a troubled mind"
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1756, 1793
"My heart is pregnant, and my soul on fire"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1760
"Why roam abroad? Since still, to Fancy's eyes, / I see, I see thy lovely form arise."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1761
"When Dinner comes, amid the various Feast, / That crowns your genial Board, where every Guest, / Or grave, or gay, is happy, and at home, / And none e'er sighed for the Mind's Elbow-room"
preview | full record— Armstrong, John (1708/9-1779)
Date: 1762
"'Rest thou,' I said, 'behind my shield; rest in peace, thou beam of light! the gloomy chief of Sora will fly, if Fingal's arm is like his soul."
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)