Date: 1744
"Nothing is dead; nay, nothing sleeps; each soul / That ever animated human clay / Now wakes, is on the wing; and where, O where, / Will the swarm settle?"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"Is it in words to paint you? O ye fallen! / Fallen from the wings of Reason, and of Hope!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
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: 1773
"Strong Passions draw, like Horses that are strong, / The Body-Coach of Flesh and Blood along; / While subtle Reason, with each Rein in Hand, / Sits on the Box, and has them at Command; / Rais'd up aloft, to see and to be seen, / Judges the Track, and guides the gay Machine."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773
"But was it made for nothing else beside / Passions to draw, and Reason to be Guide? / Was so much Art employ'd to drag and drive / Nothing within the Vehicle alive? / No seated Mind that claims the moving Pew, / Master of Passions, and of Reason too?"
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1788
"Thou, who, for noble faults like these, too cold, / Whose vices n'er aspire, but stoop to gold, / That groveling passion of the sordid breast, / Like Aaron's serpent swallowing up the rest."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)