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Date: 1763
"With firm resolves my steady bosom steel, / Bravely to suffer, tho' I deeply feel."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763
"A far-stretch'd mirror spreads: its Bosom shews / Th'inverted prospect, circled in with hills / And cliffs, a Theatre immense!"
preview | full record— Keate, George (1729-1797)
Date: 1763, 1791
"Fancy precedes [Judgment], and conquers all the mind"
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1763, 1791
Deliberating Judgment slowly comes behind [Fancy]; / Comes to the field with blunderbuss and gun, / Like heavy Falstaff, when the work is done"
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1763
"O'er crabbed authors life's gay prime to waste, / To clamp wild genius in the chains of taste, / To bear the slavish drudgery of schools, / And tamely stoop to ev'ry pedant's rules."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763
"Try, thou State-Juggler, ev'ry paltry art, / Ransack the inmost closet of my heart / Swear Thou'rt my Friend; by that base oath make way / Into my breast, and flatter to betray."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763
"Grown old in villainy, and dead to grace, / Hell in his heart, and TYBURNE in his face; / Behold, a Parson at thy Elbow stands, / Low'ring damnation, and with open hands / Ripe to betray his Saviour for reward; / The Atheist Chaplain of an Atheist Lord."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763
"True Virtue means, let Reason use her eyes,Nothing with Fools, and Int'rest with the Wise."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763
"Explore the dark recesses of the mind, / In the Soul's honest volume read mankind, / And own, in wise and simple, great and small, / The same grand leading Principle in All."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763
"Doth Virtue in thy bosom brighter glow, / Or from a Spring more pure doth Action flow? / Is not thy Soul bound with those very chains / Which shackle us, or is that SELF, which reigns / O'er Kings and Beggars, which in all we see / Most strong and sov'reign, only weak in Thee?"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
