Date: 1760
"Sudden my verses take the rude alarm, / New-coin'd, and from the mint of fancy warm"
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1760
"There is a certain pleasing force that binds, / Faster than chains do slaves, two willing minds."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1761
"'O let not Reason's lamp be lighted here!"
preview | full record— Fawkes, Francis (1720-1777); Menander (342-291 B.C.)
Date: 1762
"Often, like the evening-sun, comes the memory of former times on my soul."
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1762
"To mine the king of Iniscon,' said Connal, 'heart of steel'"
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1762
"But when the king came, in the sound of his course, what heart of steel could stand!"
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1762
"My soul, that never melted before; it was like the steel of my sword"
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1762
"'Rest thou,' I said, 'behind my shield; rest in peace, thou beam of light! the gloomy chief of Sora will fly, if Fingal's arm is like his soul."
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1762
"He beholds him with bursting joy; and turns, amid his crowded soul"
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1762
"Yet, when by Fancy’s Influence unconfin’d, / Does Wisdom give my throbbing Bosom Laws? / Do calmer Thoughts compose my ruffled Mind?"
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)