Date: 1745
"Keep strongly in the hot rebellious Mind, / Be it with Bits restrain'd, and Curbs confin'd. / The docile Horse in prime of Years is broke / To bear the Rein, or stretch beneath the Yoke."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1746
"Such the strong passions that his reason sway, / The lust, and av'rice on his vital prey."
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James
Date: 1746
"If wisdom once relax her golden reins, / No bliss is felt-but what the transport feign / Excess of joy but terminates in pain, / And impotence is ever in disdain."
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James
Date: 1747
"But the wild passions, once broke loose, to check / Surpass'd his pow'r, or the slack'd reins recall."
preview | full record— Cardinal Melchior de Polignac (1661-1741)
Date: 1754
"This little Bird, when you receive, / An emblem of my heart believe."
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1755
"Bid grief, that vulture to my breast, / Sharper than what Prometheus knows, / Avaunt! and leave the bard at rest."
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel
Date: 1755
The "busy Statesman's mind" may grow putrid on the throne of power so that "Fresh vices spring up ev'ry hour; / As in dead corses serpents breed, / And loathsome, on corruption feed"
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: 1759
A Logician is "one, that has been broke / To Ride and Pace his Reason by the Booke, And by their Rules, and Precepts, and Examples, / To put his wits into a kind of Trammells."
preview | full record— Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)
Date: 1760?
The Grace teaches "When to check the sportive Vein; / When to Fancy give the Rein."
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1761, 1765
"Labour and Want (unhospitable twain) / Chill not the current in Life's salient vein; / Nor damp the spirits, else of sprightly cast, / Nor check the nobler passions of the breast; / Nor blunt the fine Sensation's tender edge, / Which man's chief pride philosophers allege. / Thus some fair ...
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)