Date: February 1755
"See yon delicious woodbines rise / By oaks exalted to the skies, / So view in Harriot's matchless mind / Humility and greatness join'd."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1755
"Those would seem Gentlemen! who strut the Mall, / In Waistcoats lac'd on Sundays--troll about, / Leaving their Minds undrest--all Show without."
preview | full record— Arnold, Cornelius (b. 1714, d. in or after 1758)
Date: 1755
"To Modesty she made severe Pretence; / Under that Mask her Wantonness would hide; / Too thin Disguise! for oft the grosser Sense / Would reassume the Reins, drive over the weaker Fence."
preview | full record— Arnold, Cornelius (b. 1714, d. in or after 1758)
Date: 1755
"His wav'ring mind is in a whirlwind tost."
preview | full record— Mendez, Moses (1690 - c.1758)
Date: 1755
"What Heart of Steel shall dare t'oppose / And league among his hard'ned Foes?"
preview | full record— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)
Date: 1755
"'In glad Submission bow ye down, / ' Nor steel that stubborn Heart."
preview | full record— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)
Date: 1755
A beam of brightness may break on the mind and "drive errors cloud away / & make a calm in passions troubled sea"
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1755
"Like Death impartial, [Love] presents his Dart, / And sure to conquer, aims at ev'ry Heart"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1755
"After the many restless Nights I've spent, / In anxious Care, in raving Discontent, / Contending with a wild, a fierce Desire, / The Flame of Love, which set my Soul on Fire."
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1755
"Oh let me now thy tender Mercy find, / With thy free Grace illuminate my Mind, / Let me no more the Slave of Passion be, / But turn my wand'ring Thoughts to Heav'n and thee."
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)