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: 1746
"He framed a melting lay, to try her heart; / And, if an infant passion struggled there, / To call that passion forth."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1746
"With inward view, / Thence on the ideal kingdom swift she turns / Her eye; and instant, at her powerful glance, / The obedient phantoms vanish or appear; / Compound, divide, and into order shift, / Each to his rank, from plain perception up / To the fair forms of Fancy's fleeting train."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1753, 1770
"Tho' liv'd he now he might appeal with scorn / To Lords, Knights, 'Squires and Doctors, yet unborn; / Or justly mad to Moloch's burning fane / Devote the choicest children of his brain."
preview | full record— Armstrong, John (1708/9-1779)
Date: 1756, 1793
"Domestic troubles long my mind oppress'd, / And made the muse a stranger to my breast"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1756, 1793
"'Thought crowds on thought, my brisk ideas flow, / 'And much I long to tell, and much to know"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1760, 1850
"Yet still in fancy's painted cells / The soul-inflaming image dwells."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1760, 1850
"What grand ideas crowd my brain! / What images! a lofty train / In beauteous order spring"
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1762
"He beholds him with bursting joy; and turns, amid his crowded soul"
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1765
"O ye pure inmates of the gentle breast, / Truth, Freedom, Love, O where is your abode?"
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)