Date: 1760
"Sudden my verses take the rude alarm, / New-coin'd, and from the mint of fancy warm"
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1760
"There is a certain pleasing force that binds, / Faster than chains do slaves, two willing minds."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1768
Fable is a mirror in which an image of the mind may be presented
preview | full record— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)
Date: 1789
"[T]he important overthrow of the common enemy of our religious liberty ... must be engraven on our hearts in the very deepest characters of gratitude and praise"
preview | full record— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)
Date: 1789
"There northern Kametzchatka's dreary strand, / And frozen Isles, your daring toils demand: / Again your British hearts of steel"
preview | full record— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)
Date: 1789
"Peace and Hope, sweet twins of Virtue, / Shall be strangers to thy breast"
preview | full record— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)