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Date: 1755
"Why did I not / Repent, while yet my Crimes were decibel! / Ere they had struck their Colours thro' my Soul, / As black as Night or Hell!"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
"His bold Resolves have steel'd ZAPHIRA's Breast / Against thy Love"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
A beam of brightness may break on the mind and "drive errors cloud away / & make a calm in passions troubled sea"
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1756
"This heart is become a mere rasa tabula; you must help it to the [GREEK CHARACTERS], you must lay in it the foundation of natural religion, (i.e. "the dictates of common sense, for natural religion, according to Mr. H. is nothing else,) if you would raise the superstr...
preview | full record— Patten, Thomas (1714-1790)
Date: March 1756
"The thought-kindling light, / Thy prime production, darts upon my mind / Its vivifying beams, my heart illumines, / And fills my soul with gratitude and Thee."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: March 1756
"But not to all,--for hark! the organs blow / Their swelling notes round the cathedral's dome, / And grace th'harmonious choir, celestial feast / To pious ears, and med'cine of the mind."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: June, 1756
"I sent back memory, in heedful guise, / To search the records of preceding years; / Home, like the raven to the ark, she flies, / Croaking bad tidings to my trembling ears."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: June, 1756
"But soul-rejoicing health again returns, / The blood meanders gentle in each vein, / The lamp of life renew'd with vigour burns, / And exil'd reason takes her seat again-- / Brisk leaps the heart, the mind's at large once more, / To love, to praise, to bless, to wonder and adore."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: June, 1756
"Glow, glow, my soul, with pure seraphic fire."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1756
"I hardly believe there is in any language a metaphor more appositely applied, or more elegantly expressed, than this of the effects of the warmth of fancy."
preview | full record— Warton, Joseph (bap. 1722, d. 1800)
