Date: 1720
"Hypocrisie contracts, there is no Room within, / The Heart is fetter'd and enthral'd by Sin."
preview | full record— Pennecuik, Alexander (d. 1730)
Date: 1720
"Hence Superstition, that tormenting guest, / That haunts with fancy'd fears the coward breas;"
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: June, 1720
"Faint-hearted Wights, wha dully stood afar, / Tholling your Reason great Attempts to mar; / While the brave Dauntless, of sic Fetters free, / Jumpt headlong glorious in the golden Sea."
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: June, 1720
"Daring and unco' stout he was, / With Heart hool'd in three Sloughs of Brass, Wha ventur'd first upon the Sea / With Hempen Branks, and Horse of Tree"
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: w 1710, 1720
"Whilst like the Lamp's last Flame, their trembling Souls / Are on the Wing to leave their mortal Goals."
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1720
"A Thousand Transports crowd his Breast."
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1720
"His Fancy still awake; the roving Guest / Usurps the Throne of Reason in his Breast: / Forms great Ideas, and religious Schemes, / A busy mime, and floats in golden Dreams."
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1720
"For wary Clerks learn all these Arts / To gain Esteem, and conquer Hearts."
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1720, 1735
A banker's soul may be "Weigh'd in the Ballance, and found Light."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: January, 1719; 1720
"Still heavy, at the last my Nose / I prim'd with an inspiring Dose, / Then did the Ideas dance, (dear safe us!) / As they'd been daft."
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)