Date: 1754
Soft Repose may glide smooth through the heart, calm as a stream
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1755
"If ever gentle Pity touch'd thy Heart, / Now let it melt!"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
"Thou, superior to the Frowns / Of Fate, can'st pour thy Sunshine o'er the Soul, / And brighten Woe to Rapture!"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
"But Tears of Joy: For I have seen ZAPHIRA, / And pour'd the Balm of Peace into her Breast"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1757, 1758, 1771, 1777
"Gentler shapes, and softer scenes disclose, / To melt the feeling heart, yet soothe its tenderest woes"
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1757, 1758, 1771, 1777
"Queen of the human heart! at whose command / The swelling tides of mighty Passion rise."
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1759
"But as to the singular talent so remarkable in Euripides, at melting down hearts into the tender streams of grief and pity, there the resemblance fails."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1759
"Their grief, however, like their joy, was transient; every thing floated in their mind unconnected with the past or future, so that one desire easily gave way to another, as a second stone cast into the water effaces and confounds the circles of the first."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1765
"Reason in the bosom pours, / Its growth improves, its fruit matures, / Each counsel of the human brain / Weighs in his scale, and stamps it vain?"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)