Date: June, 1756
"But soul-rejoicing health again returns, / The blood meanders gentle in each vein, / The lamp of life renew'd with vigour burns, / And exil'd reason takes her seat again-- / Brisk leaps the heart, the mind's at large once more, / To love, to praise, to bless, to wonder and adore."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1756
"Tho' Rome's fell Star malignant shone, / When good Eliza rul'd this State, / On English hearts she plac'd her throne, / And in their happiness her Fate, / While blacker than the Tempests of the North, / The Papal Tyrant sent his curses forth."
preview | full record— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
Date: 1757, 1758, 1771, 1777
"Ah Goddess! cease / Thus with terrific forms to rack my brain; / These horrid phantoms shake the throne of peace, / And Reason calls her boasted powers in vain.
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: w. 1755-1757, 1768
Horror may be a "tyrant of the throbbing breast"
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1759
"Then wilt Thou [God] in the saints reside, / And make their hearts Thy throne."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1760, 1761
"And Reason to herself alone is law."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: April 1761
"What the grave triflers on this busy scene, / When they make use of this word Reason, mean, / I know not; but according to my plan, / 'Tis Lord Chief-Justice in the court of man"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1761, 1777
"She [the goddess of mirth], whose fair throne is fix'd in human souls, / From joy to joy her eye delighted rolls."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1762
Grief may be subdued "by reason's empire shown"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1762, 1781
"Delusion o'er my Mind usurps Command, / And rules each Sense with Fancy's magic Wand."
preview | full record— Keate, George (1729-1797)