Date: w. December 1742, 1760
"Honour erected in thy breast its throne, / And kind Humanity was all thy own."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1744, 1746
"Wide-stretching from these shores, / A people savage from remotest time, / A huge neglected empire, one vast mind, / By Heaven inspired, from gothic darkness call'd."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1746, 1793
"Then, then, exert thy utmost pow'r, / And teach me Being to endure; / Lest reason from the helm should start, / And lawless fury rule my heart; / Lest madness all my soul subdue, / To ask her Maker, What dost thou?"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1746
"With inward view, / Thence on the ideal kingdom swift she turns / Her eye; and instant, at her powerful glance, / The obedient phantoms vanish or appear; / Compound, divide, and into order shift, / Each to his rank, from plain perception up / To the fair forms of Fancy's fleeting train."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1748
"Let godlike reason, from her sovereign throne, / Speak the commanding word 'I will!' and it is done."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1754, 1793
"Let Logic's sons, mechanic throng, / Their syllogistic war prolong, / And reason's empire boast."
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1754, 1793
Griefs may "alternate o'er the bosom reign"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1754, 1793
"Desires more warm their natal throne maintain, / Platonic passions only reach the brain."
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1755, 1836
"Should man through Nature solitary roam, / His will his sovereign, every where his home, / What force would guard him from the lion's jaw?"
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1757, 1769
"The king of men to sudden rage resign'd, / At once, the empire of his mighty mind."
preview | full record— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)