Date: 1747
"What Place can banish Love / From the subjected Mind."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1747
"E'en stern ecclesiasticks laid aside / (To welcome him) their ruling passion, pride."
preview | full record— Gilbert, Thomas (bap. 1713, d. 1766)
Date: 1749
"Her gentle Sway no sanguine Wreath requir'd; / In Halcyon Hearts she fix'd her friendly Throne."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1749
Man, ungoverned by reason or unguided by Instinct, may rush lawless and headlong, leaving "native Joy and gentle Peace behind"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1749
The "gentle Passions" may move obedient still, reason rule, and wisdom guide the will
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1757
"Oh, son of genius! Friend of art! / Garrick, thou monarch of the heart!"
preview | full record— Boyce, Samuel (d. 1775)
Date: 1757
An enchantress may fix her "sun-bright throne" in her lover's bosom
preview | full record— Boyce, Samuel (d. 1775)
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)
Date: 1762
"But ah! how oft' my lawless Passions rove, / And break those awful Precepts I approve!"
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)