Date: 1728
Imaginary Conquests may swell the Mind
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1728
"Or canst Thou judge, by partial Passion blind?"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1728
"At once thy small, yet glorious Dart / Shall conquer Love's, and Laura's Heart."
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1728
"Gold has no Lustre to the Souls of Man, / Gold is but tempting to our worldly Eye"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1728, 1740
"Savage their nature, and their hearts of stone; / Their houses brass, of brass the warlike blade"
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1729
"Oh, let not the soft, penetrating plague / Creep on the freeborn mind! and working there, / With the sharp tooth of many a new-form'd want, / Endless, and idle all, eat out the heart / Of liberty; the high conception blast; / The noble sentiment, the impatient scorn / Of base subjection, and the...
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1729
"Induced at last, by scarce perceived degrees, / Sapping the very frame of government, / And life, a total dissolution comes; / Sloth, ignorance, dejection, flattery, fear."
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Date: 1729
"Now, while my thought round nature's circle runs / (A bolder journey than the furious sun's) / This chief and satiating good to find / The attracting centre of the human mind"
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Date: 1729
"Then the good easy man, whom reason rules; / Rouz'd by bold insult, and injurious rage, / With sharp, and sudden check, th' astonish'd sons / Of violence confounds; firm as his cause, / His bolder heart; in awful justice clad; / His eyes effulging a peculiar fire: / And, as he charges thro' the ...
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Date: 1729
"To Coin, like Man, a little Ape, / 'Gainst Heaven is High-Treason"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)