Date: 1757
"Oh, son of genius! Friend of art! / Garrick, thou monarch of the heart!"
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Date: 1757, 1769
"The king of men to sudden rage resign'd, / At once, the empire of his mighty mind."
preview | full record— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)
Date: 1757
An enchantress may fix her "sun-bright throne" in her lover's bosom
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Date: 1758
Truth is the "Great queen of harmony ... whose moral scepter rules the hearts of kings"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1761, 1765
Authors may "drag down Reason from her throne / Or make her reign unaided and alone"
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)
Date: 1761, 1765
Music may hold "sov'reign empire o'er the heart"
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)
Date: 1761, 1765
"If Prejudices rule with tyrant sway, / Teach them the voice of Reason to obey."
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)
Date: 1761, 1765
"If Passion domineers with wild uproar, / Speak, and again the Mind's lost peace restore, / To Thee, when sickness or distress draw nigh."
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)
Date: 1762
"Yet, when by Fancy’s Influence unconfin’d, / Does Wisdom give my throbbing Bosom Laws? / Do calmer Thoughts compose my ruffled Mind?"
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1762
"While Night in solemn Shade invests the Pole, / And calm Reflexion soothes the pensive Soul; / While Reason undisturb'd asserts her Sway, / And Life’s deceitful Colours fade away: / To Thee! all-conscious Presence! I devote / This peaceful Interval of sober Thought."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)