Date: 1781
"'Gainst fear and pity now thy bosom steel, / For sights more horrible I now reveal!"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1781, 1791
An "scholar, but unwise" "cannot separate the dross / From the pure ore"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1782
"Let heathen worthies, whose exalted mind / Left sensuality and dross behind, / Possess for me their undisputed lot"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
"Thus rust the Mind's best powers."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1785
Wisdom is a pearl "with most success / Sought in still water, and beneath clear skies"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
"Mark now the proof I give thee, that the brave / Need no such aids as superstition lends / To steel their hearts against the dread of death!"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785-7, 1791, 1792
"Yet are there some who think (but what a shame!) / Poor people's souls like pence of Birmingham, / Adulterated brass--base stuff--abhorr'd-- / That never can pass current with the Lord; / And think because of wealth they boast a store, / With ev'ry freedom they may treat the poor."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1786
"But if (which Pow'rs above prevent) / That iron-hearted carl, Want, / Attended, in his grim advances, / By sad mistakes, and black mischances"
preview | full record— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
Date: 1787
"Whate'er pursuits the attentive mind employ / Must mark our manners with a strong alloy"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)