Date: 1735, 1792
The mind "speeds her ministry abroad, / And rules obedient matter with a nod" as "The obsequious mass beneath her influence yields, /And even her will the unwieldy fabric wields"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1735, 1792
"Tho' winding paths" the soul's "sprightly envoys fly, / Or watchful in the frontier senses lie"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1735, 1792
"Such haply by that Côon artist known, / Seated apparent queen on Fancy's throne; / From thence thy shape his happy canvas blest, / And colours dipt in heaven thy heavenly form confest"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1738, 1792
"But soon a beam, emissive from above, / Shed mental day, and touch'd the heart with love; / Gave jealous rage to know Divine Controul, / And ruled the tempest rising in the soul."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
In prelapsarian times "the body, passive slave," did not dare "controul / The sov'reign mandates of the ruling soul"
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1739
"Passions enslave, and servile cares oppress"
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1739
"Fraud, rapine, murder, guilt's long horrid train, / Distracted nature's anarchy maintain."
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1739
"But as the moon reflecting borrow'd day, /Sheds on our shadow'd world a feeble ray: /Some scatter'd beams of Reason law contains, /While Order's rule must be enforc'd by pains"
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1739
"But if you have your Masters within your corrupt Mind, how are you Freer than this Slave, who is frighted to his Business by his Master's Frown, and Lash."
preview | full record— Sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738)
Date: 1741
"But Thou shalt rise superior to their Arts, / And fix Thy Empire in a People's Hearts."
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)