Date: 1755, 1771
"Passions, like colours, have their strength and ease, / Those too insipid, and too gaudy these."
preview | full record— Cawthorn, James (1719-1761)
Date: 1755, 1771
"Contrast them, curb them, spread them, or confine, / Ennoble these, and those forbid to shine; / With cooler shades ambition's fire allay, / And mildly melt the pomp of pride away; / Her rainbow robe from vanity remove, / Each pulse congenial with the' informing mind, / Each action station'd in ...
preview | full record— Cawthorn, James (1719-1761)
Date: 1773
"Oh! my heart sinks, my dying eyes o'erflow, / When mem'ry paints the picture of their woe!"
preview | full record— Day, Thomas (1748-1789)
Date: 1775
"See, in their course, each transitory thought / Fixed by his touch a lasting essence take; / Each dream, in fancy's airy colouring wrought, / To local symmetry and life awake!"
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1780, 1781, 1788
"Two passions there by soft contention please, / The love of martial Fame, and learned Ease: / These friendly colours, exquisitely join'd, / Form the enchanting picture of thy mind."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)