Date: 1765, 1770
"When of old / Arcadia's peaceful shepherds uncontroul'd / Their ranging flocks thro' boundless pastures drove, / Or tun'd their pipes beneath the myrtle grove, / Their laws on brazen tablets unimprest / Were deeply grav'd on each ingenuous breast, / No proud Vicegerent of Astrea reign'd, / Astre...
preview | full record— Wodhull, Michael (1740-1816)
Date: 1765, 1770
"On Life's rough sea by stormy passions tost, / Freedom and Virtue were together lost."
preview | full record— Wodhull, Michael (1740-1816)
Date: 1765, 1770
"These baseless structures, fictions light and vain, / Coin'd in the foldings of an idle brain, / To their absurd inventors I resign, / They are not in the Church's creed, or mine."
preview | full record— Wodhull, Michael (1740-1816)
Date: 1766
"Altho' your brains are Lead, / These Quills, my Lads, will get you Bread"
preview | full record— Lloyd, Evan (1734-1776)
Date: 1739, 1766
Sins may "erect their throne" in one's heart
preview | full record— Nicol, Alexander (bap. 1703)
Date: 1766
"Faction's torch of sulphurous gleam / Shall fire the heart that feels not Fancy's beam."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1766
"Ev'n this my friend, its well known image here / Remains engraven by the hand of love: / My beating heart confirms it for the same."
preview | full record— Williams, Anna (1708-1783)
Date: 1766, 1806
"WITH falsehood lurking in thy sordid breast, / And perj'ry's seal upon thy heart imprest, / Dar'st thou, Oh Christian! brave the sounding waves, / The treach'rous whirlwinds, and untrophied graves?"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1766
"These are the marks which heav'n itself design'd, / The sterling standards of the human mind"
preview | full record— Jemmat [née Yeo], Catherine (bap. 1714, d. 1766?)
Date: 1766
"So get these lines, and what they do evince, / By heart; and they may give you some impressions, / Both of salvation and of your transgressions;"
preview | full record— Nicol, Alexander (bap. 1703)