Date: 1759
"As no Man mind's those Clocks that use to go / Apparently to[o] over fast, or slow."
preview | full record— Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)
Date: 1759
"Peaceful virtues" dwell within the "sacred cell" of the heart
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: October 13, 1759
"My heart, a victim to thine eyes, / Should I at once deliver, / Say, would the angry fair one prize / The gift, who slights the giver?"
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1759
Woes may haunt the mind (but the Gods may give "cruel Phantoms to the Wind"
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1759
A "steely Heart can brave the boist'rous Seas"
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1759
"For well I know, nor Flint, nor ruthless Steel, / Can arm the Breast of such a gentle Maid."
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1759, 1761
"To her mind's eye a thousand ghosts appear, / The foolish apparitions of her fear."
preview | full record— Fawkes, Francis (1720-1777); Menander (342-291 B.C.)
Date: 1759
"Mankind's the same to Beasts and Fouls / That Devils are to Humane Soules, / Who therefor, when like Fiends th' appeare, / Avoyd and Fly with equal feare."
preview | full record— Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)
Date: 1759
"'Tis in the Culture of the Mind, as in that of the Earth; Precepts may be sown too thick together; so as to smother, and obstruct the Growth, and Product of each other, by encumbring the Soil, where they are sown; and by that Means frustrate the Labor of him, who sowes them."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1759
"Not Charms alone made the Fam'd Sisters great, / Both wedded, to high Titles, Wealth, and State; / But bland Complacence, and obsequious Art, / That could, with silken Bands, enthrall the Heart."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)