Date: 1765
"Thro' rooted vice my spirits fail, / Which o'er my heart an empire wins, / O let thy mercy countervail / To cover all our sins."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1765
"Be ye not like to horse or mule, / That are not bless'd with reason's rule."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1766, 1808
"Nature, my friend, profuse in vain, / May every gift impart; / If unimprov'd, they ne'er can gain / An empire o'er the heart."
preview | full record— Anstey, Christopher (1724-1805)
Date: 1767
"For oh the time will come, when you shall feel / Stabs in your heart more sharp than stabs of steel"
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1767
"A Mind is a balance for thousands a year."
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1767, 1784
"Think not my breast is steel'd against the claims / Of sweet humanity."
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1767, 1784
"But plant some gentler passion in its room, / Some virtuous instinct suited to your make, / As glory is to ours, alike required / A ransom for the vulgar's vassal state, / Then wou'dst thou soon the strong contention own, / And justify my conduct."
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1767, 1784
"So, when on some weighty truth / A beam of heav'nly light its lustre sheds, / To Reason's eye it looks supremely fair."
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1767, 1784
"But if foul Passion, or distemper'd Pride, / Impede its search, or Phrenzy seize the brain, / Then Ignorance a gloomy darkness spreads, / Or Superstition, with mishapen forms, / Erects its savage empire in the mind."
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1767, 1784
The native "British Ore" is polished by the social arts, and useful toil: they "polish life, and civilize the mind!"
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)