Date: 1764
"To this cabinet volition, or will, has a key; so when an arduous subject occurs, I unlock my bureau, pull out the particular drawer, and am supply'd with what I want in an instant."
preview | full record— Foote, Samuel (1720-1777)
Date: 1764, 1773
"In cloister'd state let selfish sages dwell, / Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell!"
preview | full record— Shenstone, William (1714-1763)
Date: 1764
"Bold was the man, and fenc'd in ev'ry part /With oak, and ten-fold brass about the heart, / To build a play who tortur'd first his brain, / And then dar'd launch it on this stormy main."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: w. 1764, published 1820
"O Peace of mind, thou lovely guest, / Thou softest soother of the breast, / Dispense thy balmy store."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: w. 1764, published 1820
"Yet, why repine? What, though by bonds confined, / Should bonds enslave the vigour of the mind?"
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1764
"No: if you will be a true member of this church, you must give up your reason, and even the testimony of your senses too; as appears notoriously in the affair of transubstantiation."
preview | full record— Murray, James (1732-1782)
Date: 1764
"All evils here contaminate the mind, / That opulence departed leaves behind."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1764
"Each nobler aim, repressed by long control, / Now sinks at last or feebly mans the soul; / While low delights, succeeding fast behind, / In happier meanness occupy the mind: / As in those domes, where Caesars once bore sway, / Defaced by time and tottering in decay, / There in the ruin, heedless...
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1764
"Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state / With daring aims irregularly great."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)