Date: 1760
"How short aspiring Reason's vaunted Line, / When stretch'd to search thy Ways, thy Works divine!""
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1760
"Whene'er he visits us with Racks of Pain, / And speeds the rapid Fever in each Vein, / Our drossy Souls the potent Fire refines,/ Till the bright Ore in polish'd Beauty shines"
preview | full record— Langhorne,William (1721-1772)
Date: 1760
"Dim burns the Lamp of Life; this Breast heaves slow; / My Soul shall soon the last sad Journey go."
preview | full record— Langhorne,William (1721-1772)
Date: 1760, 1803
"To farther conquests still my soul aspires, / And all my bosom glows with martial fires"
preview | full record— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
Date: 1760
"That the young sorcerer's fatal hand / Should round my soul his pleasing fetters tie."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
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: 1760?
The Grace teaches "When to check the sportive Vein; / When to Fancy give the Rein."
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1760?
The Grace teaches "On the Subject when to be / Grave or gay, reserv'd or free: / The speaking Air, th' impassion'd Eye, / The living Soul of Symmetry; / And that soft Sympathy that binds / In magic Chains congenial Minds."
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1760
"On clouds, where Fancy's beam amusive plays, / Shall heedless Hope the towering fabric raise?"
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)