Date: 1748
"O who can speak the vigorous joys of health! / Unclogg'd the body, unobscured the mind."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1748
"Let godlike reason, from her sovereign throne, / Speak the commanding word 'I will!' and it is done."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1754, 1793
" Till Shakespeare touch'd the soul with all her smart, / And stamp'd her living image on the heart."
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1759
Woes may haunt the mind (but the Gods may give "cruel Phantoms to the Wind"
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1774
"For hell is center'd in my breast, / There still its hottest fervours burn"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1776
Oblivion may throw "Her dark blank shades" o'er your mind
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1789, 1800
"Human Nature's his show-box--your friend, would you know him? / Pull the string, Ruling Passion--the picture will show him."
preview | full record— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
Date: 1790
"There is a midnight in the breast / No morn shall ever cheer."
preview | full record— Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851)
Date: 1793
"Flit, Galloway, and find / Some narrow, dirty, dungeon cave, / The picture of thy mind"
preview | full record— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
Date: 1794
" And now these Dæmons of the captive mind / Him to the drery Cave of Discontent resignd"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)