Date: April 1761
"What the grave triflers on this busy scene, / When they make use of this word Reason, mean, / I know not; but according to my plan, / 'Tis Lord Chief-Justice in the court of man"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763
"Nor hope the Conquest of that stubborn Heart"
preview | full record— Hoyland, Francis (1727-1786)
Date: 1770
"Not greater wonder seiz'd th' abode / Of gloomy Dis, infernal god, / With pity when th' Orphean lyre / Did every iron heart inspire, / Sooth'd tortur'd ghosts with heavenly strains, / And respited eternal pains."
preview | full record— Dalton, John (b. 1709, d. 1763)
Date: 1781
"Her teeming Thoughts with bright Conceptions glow, / Ideas crowd, and Lines spontaneous flow."
preview | full record— Keate, George (1729-1797)
Date: 1791
"The generous Mind expanding into Joy, / While no mean Passion mixt its base Alloy;"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1804
"The daring imp has learn'd to stand his ground; / Well steel'd his heart, and bronz'd his face"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1804
The "tender, feeling heart" is "Compassion's throne"
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)