Date: 1743
"For all was pure within: No fell Remorse, / Nor anxious Castings up of what might be, / Alarm'd his peaceful Bosom: Summer Seas / Shew not more smooth, when kiss'd by Southern Winds / Just ready to expire."
preview | full record— Blair, Robert (1699-1746)
Date: 1746
"Like the fierce rage of an impetuous win / Burst forth the passions" of a raving mind
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James
Date: 1746
"As gentle winds inflate the spreading sails," "so wealth and glory swell the Pride"
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James
Date: 1746
"Man, in a storm of passions daily whirl'd, / Lives but the jest, and riddle of the world."
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James
Date: 1748
"What, what is virtue, but repose of mind, / A pure ethereal calm, that knows no storm?"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1748
"Ten thousand great ideas fill'd his mind; / But with the clouds they fled, and left no trace behind."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1749
"His clouded Soul now darts no dazling Ray, / And faintly warms the animated Clay: / Not Rome's sad Ruins such Impressions leave, / As Reason bury'd in the Body's Grave:"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1754
Storms may surprise the heart, the seat of reason and repose
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1754
There may be sunshine in the breast
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1755
"His wav'ring mind is in a whirlwind tost."
preview | full record— Mendez, Moses (1690 - c.1758)