Date: 1738, 1739
"For tho' right Reason should her Beams display, / And dart new Lustre on our clouded Way; / Unless Philosophy, with antient Strength, / Support her Empire to Life's utmost Length; / Unless, in Passion's Spite, we dare be free, / (What Few have been, and Few will ever be) / That pristine Turn, th...
preview | full record— Bancks, John (1709-1751)
Date: 1744
"The witnesses are heard; the cause is o'er; / Let Conscience file the sentence in her court, / Dearer than deeds that half a realm convey."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: w. August, 1745; 1822
"Above the thirst of gold, if in his heart / Ambition govern'd, Av'rice had no part."
preview | full record— Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury (1708-1759)
Date: 1745
"Could human courts take vengeance on the mind, / Axes might rust, and racks and gibbets fall: / Guard then thy mind, and leave the rest to fate."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)