Date: 1738, 1742
"See what obnoxious Vices still remain, / Which there's no Law, no Bridle, to restrain."
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1745
"Keep strongly in the hot rebellious Mind, / Be it with Bits restrain'd, and Curbs confin'd. / The docile Horse in prime of Years is broke / To bear the Rein, or stretch beneath the Yoke."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1749
People may "Bridle their passions and direct their will"
preview | full record— Stepney, George (1663-1707)
Date: 1762
"Therefore, I have no one notion, / That is not form'd, like the designing / Of the peristaltick motion; / Vermicular; twisting and twining; / Going to work / Just like a bottle-skrew upon a cork."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1775, 1776
"'Let Meekness as a dove / 'Brood in man's heart the sacred acts of Love."
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1779
"Sorrow may well possess the mind / That feeds where thorns and thistles grow"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
Reveries are "flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought" and don't attain "to the dignity of thought"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
The mind may slumber sweetly in vice's snares, her "polish'd neck" bent beneath tyranny's "usurp'd command"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
"His passions tamed and all at his control, / How perfect the composure of his soul!"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
"Peace of mind" is a delightful guest that may make its "downy nest" in a "sad heart"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)