Date: 1752
"Well! does that make you wise, / Or open on your Follies, Reason's Eyes!"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1752
"Caution'd in vain--Oh! ever Passion's Slave! / You tempt your Fate, and the same Dangers brave."
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1752
A puppet may be "compell'd by secret Springs" just as an engine "moves with Motions not its own"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1754
"Look in my face; and, could my heart lie bare, / The Father would be seen engraven there"
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1760
"Sudden my verses take the rude alarm, / New-coin'd, and from the mint of fancy warm"
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1760
"There is a certain pleasing force that binds, / Faster than chains do slaves, two willing minds."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1762
"Often, like the evening-sun, comes the memory of former times on my soul."
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1762
"To mine the king of Iniscon,' said Connal, 'heart of steel'"
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1762
"'Rest thou,' I said, 'behind my shield; rest in peace, thou beam of light! the gloomy chief of Sora will fly, if Fingal's arm is like his soul."
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: w. October, 1796; 1810
"Conscious the mortal stamp is on thy breast."
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)