Date: 1760
"If thus a golden crown can steel his heart, / O may I ne'er behold him while a king!"
preview | full record— Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)
Date: September 30, 1769?
"To nature and the passions dead, / A brothel is his house and bed; / To fan the flame of warm desire, / And after wanton in the fire, / He thinks a labour; and his parts / Were not designed to conquer hearts."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: September 30, 1769
"A sage philosopher, to try / What pupil saw with reason's eye,"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"When in the venerable gothic hall, / Where fetters rattle, evidences bawl, / Puzzled in thought by equity or law, / Into their inner room his senses draw; / There, as they snore in consultation deep, / The foolish vulgar deem him fast asleep."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"Since, in the steps of clerical degree, / All through the telescope of fancy see."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"Though Fancy under Reason's lash may fall, / Yet Fancy in Religion's all in all"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"When Bute his iron rod of favour shook, / And bore his haughty temper in his look; / Not yet contented with his boundless sway, / Which all perforce must outwardly obey, / He thought to throw his chain upon the mind; / Nor would he leave conjecture unconfined."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"The wise look further, and the wise can see / The hands of Sawney actuating thee; / The clock-work of thy conscience turns about, / Just as his mandates wind thee in and out."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"Did not thy iron conscience blush to write / This Tophet of the gentle arts polite?"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"The groves of Kew, however misapplied / To serve the purposes of lust and pride, / Were, by the greater monarch's care, designed / A place of conversation for the mind; / Where solitude and silence should remain, / And conscience keep her sessions and arraign."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)