Date: 1772, 1788
"Tho' some hollow hearts may have much room to spare, / The Devil himself wou'd not chuse to dwell there."
preview | full record— Stevens, George Alexander (1710?-1784)
Date: 1773
"My heart in Delia is so fully blest, / It has no room to lodge another joy."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"A thought, enbosom'd in this heart's recess / Shou'd, rising into act--Ah spare the rest!"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1773
"'Grief, like a canker-worm at heart, / 'Had ravag'd from his inmost cell"
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)
Date: 1773
A wasp flies up a lion's nose and "To the extremest verge ascends, / There all his waspish venom spends, / And near the brain's monastic cell / He pours his macerating spell"
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)
Date: 1773
"Sincere Devotion needs no outward shrine: / The Centre of an humble Soul is Thine."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773
"Legion of Sin! in Smiles delusive drest, / Whose loathsome Cell's the grand Deceiver's breast"
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)
Date: 1774
"Here lies honest William, whose heart was a mint, / While the owner ne'er knew half the good that was in't."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1777
"My pineal gland could you but view, / You'd scarce believe your eyes see true: / There's such a jumble; good and bad, / All sorts of thoughts, may there be had; / Like broker's shop, where we may find / Goods that belong to half mankind."
preview | full record— Savage, Mary (fl. 1763-1777)
Date: 1777
"Thus oft, from shop of brain, I try / To throw the dirt and rubbish by; / But still they gain their former state, / Or leave a vacuum in the pate."
preview | full record— Savage, Mary (fl. 1763-1777)