Date: 1726, 1753
"Love, in a chain of converse, bound mankind, / And polish'd, and awak'd the rugged mind."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1726, 1753
"Heedless of fortune then look down on state, / Balanced within by reason's conscious weight"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750); Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1727
"Death's cold Hand arrests the Fears / That haunt the Coward's Mind"
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1727
"Numps was rough, / No Heart of Oak was half so tough, / And true as Steel"
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1727
"Be husht ye Winds, be still ye Seas, / Ye Billows sleep at ease, / And in your rocky Caverns rest, / Let all be Calm as the Great Hero's Breast."
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1727, 1787
"Let us the soul in even balance bear; / Content with what we have, and what we are!"
preview | full record— Welsted, Leonard (1688-1747)
Date: w. 1707, published 1728-9
Dulness is "the safe Opiate of the Mind."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1728
"BUT yonder breathing Prospect bids the Muse / Throw all her Beauty forth, that Daubing all / Will be to what I gaze; for who can paint / Like Nature? Can Imagination boast / Amid his gay Creation Hues like Her's? / And can He mix them with that matchless Skill, / And lay them on so delicately sw...
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1728
"But thro' the Heart / Should Jealousy it's Venom once diffuse, / 'Tis then delightful Misery no more, / But Agony unmixt, incessant Rage, / Corroding every Thought, and blasting all / The Paradise of Love."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1728
Say, "How Fancy every Shape puts on? / How kindling Sparks her Form compose, / And whence the constant-shining Train, / That Mem'ry, or Experience shows?"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)