Date: 1772
"With that strong master of our frame, / The inexorable judge within / What can be done?"
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1773
"O Wisdom! if thy soft controul / Can soothe the sickness of the soul, / Can bid the warring passions cease, / And breathe the calm of tender peace;-- / Wisdom! I bless thy gentle sway, / And ever, ever will obey."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"In full perfection all thy works are wrought, / And thine the sceptre o'er the realms of thought."
preview | full record— Wheatley, Phillis (c.1753–1784)
Date: 1773
"Before thy throne the subject-passions bow, / Of subject-passions sov'reign ruler Thou, / At thy command joy rushes on the heart, / And through the glowing veins the spirits dart."
preview | full record— Wheatley, Phillis (c.1753–1784)
Date: 1773
"The grand Contrivance why so well equip / With strength of Passions, rul'd by Reason's Whip?"
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773
"But if thou com'st with frown austere / To nurse the brood of care and fear; / To bid our sweetest passions die, / And leave us in their room a sigh; / Or if thine aspect stern have power / To wither each poor transient flower, / That cheers the pilgrimage of woe, / And dry the springs whence ho...
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"Hail to pleasure's frolic train; / Hail to fancy's golden reign; / Festive mirth, and laughter wild, / Free and sportful as the child; / Hope with eager sparkling eyes, / And easy faith, and fond surprise: / Let these, in fairy colours drest, / Forever share my careless breast; / Then, tho' wise...
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"Madness ensu'd, while Reason fled her Throne."
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)
Date: 1773
"Nor blush, my fair, to own you copy these; / Your best, your sweetest empire is--to please."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1774
"Reason's Sovereign-Rule" may be denied (by Faith)
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)