Date: 1762
"Therefore, I have no one notion, / That is not form'd, like the designing / Of the peristaltick motion; / Vermicular; twisting and twining; / Going to work / Just like a bottle-skrew upon a cork."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1773
"But reasoning with a man under the influence of any passion is like endeavouring to stop a wild horse, who becomes more violent from being pursued."
preview | full record— Graves, Richard (1715-1804)
Date: 1775, 1776
"'Let Meekness as a dove / 'Brood in man's heart the sacred acts of Love."
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1779
"Sorrow may well possess the mind / That feeds where thorns and thistles grow"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
Reveries are "flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought" and don't attain "to the dignity of thought"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
The mind may slumber sweetly in vice's snares, her "polish'd neck" bent beneath tyranny's "usurp'd command"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
"His passions tamed and all at his control, / How perfect the composure of his soul!"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
"Peace of mind" is a delightful guest that may make its "downy nest" in a "sad heart"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1783
"But as his imagination was strong and rich, rather than delicate and correct, he sometimes gives it too loose reins."
preview | full record— Blair, Hugh (1718-1800)
Date: 1786
"Like caterpillars dangling under trees / By slender threads, and swinging in the breeze, / Which filthily bewray and sore disgrace / The boughs in which are bred the unseemly race, / While every worm industriously weaves / And winds his web about the rivell'd leaves; / So numerous are the follie...
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)