Date: 1762
"never joy, / Save th' anxious sordid one to view his gold, / Could touch his marble heart"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1762
"But as the fire / Refines the silver; so a taste of woe / Awakes the Soul."
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1762
"To mine the king of Iniscon,' said Connal, 'heart of steel'"
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1762
"But when the king came, in the sound of his course, what heart of steel could stand!"
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1762
"My soul, that never melted before; it was like the steel of my sword"
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1762
"A troubled joy rose on her mind, like the red path of lightning on a stormy cloud!'
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: 1762
"The soul of Nathos was sad, like the sun in the day of mist, when his face is watry and dim."
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1762
"He beholds him with bursting joy; and turns, amid his crowded soul"
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1762
"Yet, when by Fancy’s Influence unconfin’d, / Does Wisdom give my throbbing Bosom Laws? / Do calmer Thoughts compose my ruffled Mind?"
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)