Date: 1741
"His weary Soul, from earthly Bondage freed, / Nor fled to Heav'n, where Some say Spirits fly; / Nor vanish'd into Air, as Others plead; / Nor chang'd into a Star adorn'd the Sky; / Nor sought direct (a solitary Shade!) / In Pluto's gloomy Realm, Eternal Rest: / But thro' Traduction, (as his Moth...
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Date: 1741
"Nor durst he say that ought he saw was wrong, / For Fear, his master Passion, ty'd his Tongue."
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Date: 1741
"The younger two were of a milder Kind, / And bore their Sire's Impression on the Mind."
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Date: 1741
"If not your wife, let reason's rule persuade; / Name but my fault, amends shall soon be made."
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Date: 1745
"'Deep are the Wounds that plough the guilty Mind, / 'Nor golden Crowns the rising Pang can quell."
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Date: 1745
"And tho' each Day increas'd his curious Store / Thought his capacious Soul had room for more"
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1745
"All these Pleasures of his Breast should die, / The Beams of Science from his Soul retire / And fade, extinguish'd by a nobler Fire, / As kindled Wood, howe'er its Flames may rise, / When the bright Sun appears, in Embers dies."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1745
"Minerva sudden from his Soul was fled, / And Venus reign'd successive in her stead."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1745
"Soon as his Breast receiv'd the potent Ray, / Whate'er possest it, instantly gave way; / As in the Wood before the Lightning's Beam, / Perish the Leaves, and the whole Tree is Flame."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1762
"Therefore, I have no one notion, / That is not form'd, like the designing / Of the peristaltick motion; / Vermicular; twisting and twining; / Going to work / Just like a bottle-skrew upon a cork."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)