Date: 1761, 1790
"Our reason judges better than our eyes"
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787); Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1706-1760)
Date: 1762
"'Rest thou,' I said, 'behind my shield; rest in peace, thou beam of light! the gloomy chief of Sora will fly, if Fingal's arm is like his soul."
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1770
"I could not look upon his mangled corse: / I saw his mangled corse in my mind's eye."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)