Date: 1764?
"Whether we will or no, Through reason's court doth [the word lord] unquestion'd go"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1764?
"Judge Reason view'd him with an eye of grace, / Look'd through his soul, and quite forgot his face"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1764, 1773
"But thou, my friend! while in thy youthful soul / Love's gentle tyrant seats his aweful throne, / Write from thy bosom--let not art controul / The ready pen, that makes his edicts known."
preview | full record— Shenstone, William (1714-1763)
Date: January, 1764; 1774
Genius "Turns rebel to dame reason's throne / And holds no judgment like his own."
preview | full record— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)
Date: March 1764, 1774
"While Favour with a Syren's smile, / Which might Ulysses self beguile, / Presents the sparkling bright libation, / The nectar of intoxication; / And summoning her every grace / Of winning charms, and chearful face, / Smiles away Reason from his throne, / And makes his votaries her own."
preview | full record— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)
Date: 1764
"Each nobler aim, repressed by long control, / Now sinks at last or feebly mans the soul; / While low delights, succeeding fast behind, / In happier meanness occupy the mind: / As in those domes, where Caesars once bore sway, / Defaced by time and tottering in decay, / There in the ruin, heedless...
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1764
"Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state / With daring aims irregularly great."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1764
"Thus, while around the wave-subjected soil / Impels the native to repeated toil, / Industrious habits in each bosom reign, / And industry begets a love of gain."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1765, 1770
"Great is the soul which fears no vulgar awe, / But proves with pride that love's her first, great law."
preview | full record— Thompson, Edward (1738-1786)
Date: 1765
"Mere Affectation vainly would assert / A steady, lasting empire o'er the heart"
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)