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: 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: 1756, 1766
"Whether the learned Dr. Edmund Law, and the great Dr. Sherlock bishop of London, be right, in asserting, the human soul sleeps like a bat or a swallow, in some cavern for a period, till the last trumpet awakens the hero of Voltaire and Henault, I mean Lewis XIV."
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1757
"By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit whether we take or whether we lose our game, the chace is certainly of service"
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1757
"[T]he judgment is for the greater part employed in throwing stumbling blocks in the way of the imagination, in dissipating the scenes of enchantment, and in tying us down to the disagreeable yoke of our reason"
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1757-9
"'Tis said, when Japhet's Son began / To mould the Clay, and fashion Man, / He stole from every Beast a Part, / And fix'd the Lion in his Heart."
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]
Date: Performed Dec 1756, published 1757
"I've known a follower's rankled bosom breed / Venom most fatal to his heedless Lord."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)
Date: 1758
"If, therefore, you would be a musical and harmonious Person, whenever, in Parties of Drinking, the Soul is bedewed with Wine, suffer her not to go forth, and defile herself [like a snail]."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1758
"But when, in Parties of Conversation, she glows by the Beams of Reason, then command her [the soul] to speak from Inspiration and utter the Oracles of Justice [like a Grasshopper]."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1758
"In all Vice, Pleasure being presented like a Bait, draws sensual Minds to the Hook of Perdition."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)