Date: 1761
"Give me this Fury to asswage / One Drop, from some yet moist'ned Bowl / To cool the Fever in my Soul!"
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1761
"Wake my Harp! to melting Measures, / Pour thy softest, sweetest Treasures, / Such as lift the Thoughts on high; / 'Till the rapt Soul, Earth forsaking, / Heaven-ward it's Flight is taking, / On the Wings of Harmony."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1761
"Our General amidst the Noise of War, / Has a Soul tun'd to all the softer Passions."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1763
"I know not, madam, what I either hear or see, a thousand things are crowding on my imagination; while, like one just wakened from a dream, I doubt which is reality, which delusion."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1763
"My heart was lighter than a fly, / Like any bird I sung, / Till he pretended love, and I, / Believed his flattering tongue."
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Date: 1764
"Against ev'ry virtue the bosom to steel, / And only of dress the anxieties feel"
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1764
"Bold was the man, and fenc'd in ev'ry part /With oak, and ten-fold brass about the heart, / To build a play who tortur'd first his brain, / And then dar'd launch it on this stormy main."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: w. 1764, published 1820
"O Peace of mind, thou lovely guest, / Thou softest soother of the breast, / Dispense thy balmy store."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: w. 1764, published 1820
"Yet, why repine? What, though by bonds confined, / Should bonds enslave the vigour of the mind?"
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)