Date: 1749
"His clouded Soul now darts no dazling Ray, / And faintly warms the animated Clay: / Not Rome's sad Ruins such Impressions leave, / As Reason bury'd in the Body's Grave:"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1757
" To trace the actions of the good and great: / And stamp bright virtue's image on the heart"
preview | full record— Boyce, Samuel (d. 1775)
Date: 1757
A "medal'd fact" or a "sculptur'd tale" may "On the reflecting mind prevail"
preview | full record— Boyce, Samuel (d. 1775)
Date: 1757
"Shall ev'ry blockhead think his mind, / Like yours, the mirrour of mankind?"
preview | full record— Boyce, Samuel (d. 1775)
Date: 1757
"The lamp of sense, that glows in ev'ry breast, / Nature illumes, that man may stand confest"
preview | full record— Boyce, Samuel (d. 1775)
Date: 1757
"Oh, son of genius! Friend of art! / Garrick, thou monarch of the heart!"
preview | full record— Boyce, Samuel (d. 1775)
Date: 1757
"Let heav'n-born Mercy ever fill thy Breast, / And Truth be there an ever constant Guest."
preview | full record— Arnold, Cornelius (b. 1714, d. in or after 1758?)
Date: 1757
An enchantress may fix her "sun-bright throne" in her lover's bosom
preview | full record— Boyce, Samuel (d. 1775)
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)