Date: 1762
"But ah! how oft' my lawless Passions rove, / And break those awful Precepts I approve!"
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1762
"All pow’rful Grace, exert thy gentle Sway, / And teach my rebel Passions to obey: / Lest lurking Folly with insidious Art / Regain my volatile inconstant Heart."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1763
"Doth Virtue in thy bosom brighter glow, / Or from a Spring more pure doth Action flow? / Is not thy Soul bound with those very chains / Which shackle us, or is that SELF, which reigns / O'er Kings and Beggars, which in all we see / Most strong and sov'reign, only weak in Thee?"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763
"Quit then, in prudence quit, that idle train / Of toys, which have so long abus'd thy brain, / And captive led thy pow'rs; with boundless will / Let SELF maintain her state and empire still."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763
"The Judge within the Mind, shall ev'ry Cause / Impartial weigh, and cancel useless Laws"
preview | full record— Hoyland, Francis (1727-1786)
Date: 1764
Brave rage, a "grand master passion," may flame out for country
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1764
Philosophy may overturn Reason's throne and strive "proudly in its place to plant her own"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1764
Philosophy may be undermined, her empire thrown down, "By means of sense, from whom she holds the crown"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1765
"Mere Affectation vainly would assert / A steady, lasting empire o'er the heart"
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)
Date: 1765
"When Reason, on her dictatorial throne, / Argues and pleads, with undecisive tone; / Thy rhetoric of sound, beyond her aid, / Thy lyre-breath'd strains of language can persuade."
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)