Date: 1744
"[O]ne would fancy he had chang'd his very Mind too, or, at least, made him leave his Memory in pawn, for the Overplus of Pride he has lent him"
preview | full record— Ralph, James (1705-1762); original author: Thomas Tomkis (f. 1604-1615)
Date: 1745
"But when the Practice comes; when our fond Passions, / Pleasure and Pride and Self-Indulgence throw / Their magic Dust around, the Prospect roughens: / Then dreadful Passes, craggy Mountains rise, / Cliffs to be scal'd, and Torrents to be stem'd."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1745
"Distraction!--O my Soul!--Hold, Reason, hold / Thy giddy Seat--O this inhuman Outrage / Unhinges Thought!"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1745
"But from my Soul to banish, / While weeping Memory there retains her Seat, / Thoughts which the purest Bosom might have cherish'd, / Once my Delight, now even in Anguish charming, / Is more, alas! my Lord, than I can promise."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1745
"Forgive my Heat. / My rankled Mind, by Injuries inflam'd, / May be too prompt to take and give Offence."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1745
"Nought now has Charms or Terrors to my Breast, / The Seat of stupid Woe!"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1745
"The conscious Mind is its own awful World."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1752
"My ever waking Soul, / Sits brooding o'er a Train of Images, / That constant rise in terrible Array, / And shrink my Resolution into Fears."
preview | full record— Gentleman, Francis (1728-1784)
Date: 1753
"Come then, thou Cordial for sick Minds--Come to my Heart."
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1755
"Why did I not / Repent, while yet my Crimes were decibel! / Ere they had struck their Colours thro' my Soul, / As black as Night or Hell!"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)