Date: 1729, 1731
"Thus after long Experience oft has prov'd / His steady Virtue is not to be moved, / Of his known Faithfulness so well assur'd, / From Fears of Fraud his Master rests secur'd: / And, should Occasion happen, in his Breast, / His Gold, his Secrets, or his Life might rest."
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1729
"Souls, of your Stamp, can pity and protect, / And gather Fame from other Men's Neglect"
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1729
"So shall not Death, with an unfriendly Frown, / Inglorious, throw thy ruin'd Cottage down"
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1729
"Reason exerts her pure, celestial, Rays, / To guide our Steps thro' Errors weary Maze: / But upstart Passions mount her rightful Throne, / And blindly push our vanquish'd Judgment on."
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1729, 1737
"But now no longer mine, / The Reins of Empire I resign: / Let Men submit to Reason's rules, / And be at least designing fools."
preview | full record— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)
Date: 1729, 1737
"She laugh'd at all the puny Arts, / Which conquer other Female Hearts"
preview | full record— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)
Date: 1729, 1737
" 'Why wouldst thou follow with delusive Art, / 'So poor a Conquest as a female heart?"
preview | full record— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)
Date: 1729, 1737
"This friendly counsel, to the Nymph convey'd, / No small Impression on her Fancy made:"
preview | full record— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)
Date: 1729
"Oh, let not then waste luxury impair / That manly soul of toil which strings your nerves, / And your own proper happiness creates!"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1729
"E'en not all these, in one rich lot combined, / Can make the happy man, without the mind; / Where judgment sits clear-sighted, and surveys / The chain of reason with unerring gaze; / Where fancy lives, and to the brightening eyes, / His fairer scenes, and bolder figures rise; / Where social lov...
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)