Date: 1763
"Explore the dark recesses of the mind, / In the Soul's honest volume read mankind, / And own, in wise and simple, great and small, / The same grand leading Principle in All."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763
"May I be scorn'd by ev'ry man of worth, / Wander, like Cain, a vagabond on earth, / Bearing about a Hell in my own mind, / Or be to SCOTLAND for my life confin'd, / If I am one amongst the many known, / Whom SHELBURNE fled, and CALCRAFT blush'd to own."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1764
" Virtue he lack'd, cursed with those thoughts which spring / In souls of vulgar stamp"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: January, 1764; 1774
"While prose-man deems the verse-man fool, / And measures wit by line and rule, / And, as he lops off fancy's limb, / Turns executioner of whim."
preview | full record— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)
Date: 1764
"All evils here contaminate the mind, / That opulence departed leaves behind."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1764
"For, as refinement stops, from sire to son / Unaltered, unimproved the manners run; / And love's and friendship's finely pointed dart / Fall blunted from each indurated heart."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1765
"My heart in groans its grief proclaims, / And melts, as wax before the flames"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)
Date: 1765
"And my heart, within me burning, / Is become like melting wax."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1765
"Reason in the bosom pours, / Its growth improves, its fruit matures, / Each counsel of the human brain / Weighs in his scale, and stamps it vain?"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)
Date: 1765
"Are your thoughts by Justice sway'd, / And in Reason's balance weigh'd?"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)