Date: 1746
"For lofty sense, / Creative fancy, and inspection keen / Through the deep windings of the human heart, / Is not wild Shakespeare thine and Nature's boast?"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1748
"His soul was fair, / Bright as the children of yon azure sheen!"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1748
"O who can speak the vigorous joys of health! / Unclogg'd the body, unobscured the mind."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1748
"Let godlike reason, from her sovereign throne, / Speak the commanding word 'I will!' and it is done."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1754, 1793
" Till Shakespeare touch'd the soul with all her smart, / And stamp'd her living image on the heart."
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1759
Woes may haunt the mind (but the Gods may give "cruel Phantoms to the Wind"
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1774
"For hell is center'd in my breast, / There still its hottest fervours burn"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1776
Oblivion may throw "Her dark blank shades" o'er your mind
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1789, 1800
"Human Nature's his show-box--your friend, would you know him? / Pull the string, Ruling Passion--the picture will show him."
preview | full record— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)