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
"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
"My heart is pregnant, and my soul on fire"
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: 1757
"Did I wait upon Bishop Gibson to acquaint him that I was a Free-thinker, that my mind was a tabula rasa!"
preview | full record— Bower, Archibald (1686-1766)
Date: 1757, 1769
"The king of men to sudden rage resign'd, / At once, the empire of his mighty mind."
preview | full record— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)
Date: 1757, 1769
"Banish the dire impression from my breast. / For still I see the monster, as he stood."
preview | full record— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)
Date: 1757, 1769
"As thus to touch his iron heart they try'd, / The Cyclops smiling, scornful thus reply'd:"
preview | full record— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)
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)
Date: Performed Dec 1756, published 1757
"These black weeds / Express the wonted colour of thy mind, / For ever dark and dismal."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)