Date: 1745
"O how I could reproach Thee, Sigismunda! / Pour out my injur'd Soul in just Complaints!"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
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: 1748
"My bosom had been hitherto a stranger to such a flood of joy as now rushed upon it: My faculties were overborn by the tide"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1751, 1777
"They [cruel ideas] still haunt his solitary hours, damp his most aspiring thoughts, and show him, even to himself, in the most contemptible and most odious colours imaginable."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1751
"If the brain, or some part of it, were not in a manner the fountain of sensation and motion, and more peculiarly the seat of the mind than the other bowels or members of the body; why should a slight inflammation of its membranes cause madness, or a small compression of it produce a palsy or apo...
preview | full record— Whytt, Robert (1714-1766)
Date: 1751
"In this particular case, we must either suppose, that the impressions, made by the stars on the retina, are suffocated and lost in those stronger ones made by the illuminated atmosphere, so as never to reach the sensorium in order to excite any idea in the mind, or that if they do reach the sens...
preview | full record— Whytt, Robert (1714-1766)
Date: 1751
One may "pour forth the overflowings of his soul, and tell her that he neither could nor would survive her displeasure"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1753
"The nymph, whose passions nature had filled to the brim, could not hear such a rhapsody unmoved"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1754, 1762
"While private resentment was boiling in his sullen, unsociable mind, he heard the nation resound with complaints against the duke; and he met with the remonstrance of the commons, in which his enemy was represented as the cause of every national grievance, and as the great enemy of the public."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: Performed Dec 1756, published 1757
"This fatal day stirs my time-settled sorrow, / Troubles afresh the fountain of my heart."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)