Date: 1773, 1814
"The bustling World, to fetch her out from thence, / Will urge the various, plausible Pretence; / Will praise Perfections of a grander Name, / Sound great Exploíts, and call her out to Fame; / Amuse and flatter, till the Soul, too prone / To Self-activity, deserts her Throne."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773
"If Reason must judge, and we two must agree, / Another, third Reason must give the Decree"
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1777
"For since, my Lord, at Reason's awful bar / You plac'd Devonia's Duchess, 'mid the war / Of jarring tongues; since Satire's two-edg'd sword, / That smites alike the Peasant and the Lord, / By Genius whetted, threats its angry blow; / --I tremble at the vengeance of the Foe-- / While my starv'd M...
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1777, 1793
"Light sits my bosom's Master on his throne; / Airy and disencumber'd feels my Soul."
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1777, 1810
"Nay, with romantick soul, he pities all, / Whome'er it is his chance to see, / Who are not in her heart enthroned, as he, / Imaginary monarch of this earthly ball!"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1778, 1804
"There is some kind and courtly sprite / That o'er the realm of Fancy reigns."
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1778, 1788
"Thy tragic pencil, Aristides, caught / Each varied feeling, and each tender thought; / While moral virtue sanctified thy art, / And passion gave it empire o'er the heart."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1779, 1794
"For still its own severest judge, / The generous mind appears; / And when it errs, against itself / A dread tribunal rears."
preview | full record— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)
Date: 1779
"Whate'er this voice by sceptics may be found, / Faction's false cry, or Truth's prophetic sound, / Let ev'ry Briton, with bold Blake, proclaim, / His ruling passion is his Country's fame!."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: w. c. 1779
"[T]hen prudence took her Seat / Within the Soul, and reign'd in Virtue's room."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)