Date: 1743
"Sound was the Body, and the Soul serene; / Like two sweet Instruments ne'er out of Tune, / That play their several Parts."
preview | full record— Blair, Robert (1699-1746)
Date: 1743
"For all was pure within: No fell Remorse, / Nor anxious Castings up of what might be, / Alarm'd his peaceful Bosom: Summer Seas / Shew not more smooth, when kiss'd by Southern Winds / Just ready to expire."
preview | full record— Blair, Robert (1699-1746)
Date: 1757, 1769
"The king of men to sudden rage resign'd, / At once, the empire of his mighty mind."
preview | full record— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)
Date: 1757, 1769
"Banish the dire impression from my breast. / For still I see the monster, as he stood."
preview | full record— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)
Date: 1757, 1769
"As thus to touch his iron heart they try'd, / The Cyclops smiling, scornful thus reply'd:"
preview | full record— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)
Date: 1760
"Sudden my verses take the rude alarm, / New-coin'd, and from the mint of fancy warm"
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1760
"There is a certain pleasing force that binds, / Faster than chains do slaves, two willing minds."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1760, 1850
"Yet still in fancy's painted cells / The soul-inflaming image dwells."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1760, 1850
Friendship is "The indissoluble tie that binds, / In equal chains, two sister minds."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1765
"Or, greatly daring in his Country's cause, / Whose heaven-taught soul the aweful plan design'd, / Whence Power stood trembling at the voice of Laws, / Whence soar'd on Freedom's wing th'ethereal mind."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)