Date: 1755
" When knowledge vainly tries, to form a rule / For female minds;--ev'n knowledge is a fool. / Nor can the laws of art, or nature fix, / Nor wise philosophy, the wondrous sex"
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: June, 1756
"But soul-rejoicing health again returns, / The blood meanders gentle in each vein, / The lamp of life renew'd with vigour burns, / And exil'd reason takes her seat again-- / Brisk leaps the heart, the mind's at large once more, / To love, to praise, to bless, to wonder and adore."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1756
"Tho' Rome's fell Star malignant shone, / When good Eliza rul'd this State, / On English hearts she plac'd her throne, / And in their happiness her Fate, / While blacker than the Tempests of the North, / The Papal Tyrant sent his curses forth."
preview | full record— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
Date: 1757
"Oh, son of genius! Friend of art! / Garrick, thou monarch of the heart!"
preview | full record— Boyce, Samuel (d. 1775)
Date: 1757-9
Neither reason nor advice can rule love
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]
Date: 1757, 1769
"The king of men to sudden rage resign'd, / At once, the empire of his mighty mind."
preview | full record— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)
Date: 1757
An enchantress may fix her "sun-bright throne" in her lover's bosom
preview | full record— Boyce, Samuel (d. 1775)
Date: 1757, 1758, 1771, 1777
"Ah Goddess! cease / Thus with terrific forms to rack my brain; / These horrid phantoms shake the throne of peace, / And Reason calls her boasted powers in vain.
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1757-1759, 1767
"Subdue but Avarice, you'll find / More wide this Empire of the Mind, / Than could You Libya join to Spain, / And o'er each Carthage Monarch reign."
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]
Date: w. 1755-1757, 1768
Horror may be a "tyrant of the throbbing breast"
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)