Date: 1729
"'Let those soft Ties of Life, your better Part, / 'String ev'ry Nerve, and steel each Hero's Heart"
preview | full record— Harvey, John (fl.1729)
Date: 1713, 1729
Bacchus may calm a stormy soul and "place ... Reason in its Throne again"
preview | full record— Carey, Henry (1687-1743)
Date: 1729
"In my mind's Eye, I still enjoy thee here; / Still hold thee in my Heart, and in my Ear."
preview | full record— Carey, Henry (1687-1743)
Date: 1729
"O man! thy fabric's like a well-form'd state; / Thy thoughts, first-rank'd, were sure design'd the great!"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1729
"Passions plebeians are, which faction raise; / Wine, like pour'd oil, excites the raging blaze: / Then giddy anarchy's rude triumphs rise: / Then sov'reign reason from her empire flies."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1729
"That ruler [Reason] once depos'd, wisdom and wit, / To noise and folly, place and pow'r submit."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1729
"Like a frail bark thy weaken'd mind is tost, / Unsteer'd, unbalanc'd, till its wealth is lost."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1729
"The doom'd desert to av'rice stands confess'd; / Her eyes averted are, and steel'd her breast."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1729
"A deep damp gloom o'erspreads the murky cell; / Here pining thoughts, and secret terrors dwell!"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1729
"O'er my sunk spirits frowns a vap'ry scene, / Woe's dark retreat! the madding maze of spleen!"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)