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Date: 1776
"Oft let remembrance sooth his mind / With dreams of former days, / When in the lap of Peace reclined / He framed his infant lays; / When Fancy roved at large, nor Care / Nor cold Distrust alarm'd, / Nor Envy with malignant glare / His simple youth had harm'd."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1776
The ruling passion of an author may be "strongly marked in his writings"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1776
Oblivion may throw "Her dark blank shades" o'er your mind
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1776
"The impression left on the philosophical mind by these historical facts, will naturally suggest some reflections on human nature."
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1776
"One of her domestics, a Christian woman, had frequently talked with her on religion, and though she never renounced her idols, had made some impressions on her mind"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1776
"this manly indignation of the good Bishop against the impiety of religious persecution, made no impression on the mind of that bigotted Princess!"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1776
"One breast alone against his rage was steel'd, / Secure in spotless Truth's celestial shield"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1776
"Forgive, O king, if as a man I feel, / I bear no bosom of obdurate steel"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: w. 1763, 1776
"By mercy prompted his correcting hand / Inflicts the stroke of salutary pain, / To check tyrannic Passions's wild demand, / And free our Reason from it's slavish chain."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1777
"For since, my Lord, at Reason's awful bar / You plac'd Devonia's Duchess, 'mid the war / Of jarring tongues; since Satire's two-edg'd sword, / That smites alike the Peasant and the Lord, / By Genius whetted, threats its angry blow; / --I tremble at the vengeance of the Foe-- / While my starv'd M...
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
