Date: 1754
Soft Repose may glide smooth through the heart, calm as a stream
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1757, 1758, 1771, 1777
"Gentler shapes, and softer scenes disclose, / To melt the feeling heart, yet soothe its tenderest woes"
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1757, 1758, 1771, 1777
"Queen of the human heart! at whose command / The swelling tides of mighty Passion rise."
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1759
"Read Locke, whose penetrating Searches show / The Source, from whence our first Ideas flow; / Whence, with collected Stores, like Waters join'd, / They form the Depths of intellectual Mind."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1759
"No further can the Reach of human Mind / Extend, like Ocean, to its Bounds confin'd."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1759
"Minds slothful, like uncultivated Earth, / To Weeds of Vice, and Folly, give a Birth; / Silver, and Gold, for Want of proper Use, / Their Splendor lose, and cancrous Rust produce; / Streams owe their Purity, to active Speed, / If Waters stagnate, they Corruption breed."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1765
"Reason in the bosom pours, / Its growth improves, its fruit matures, / Each counsel of the human brain / Weighs in his scale, and stamps it vain?"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)
Date: 1765
""Unwise, who, tossing on the watery way, / All to the storm th'unfetter'd sail devolve; / Man more unwise resigns the mental sway, / Born headlong on by passion's keen resolve."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1766
"Should you but discompose the tide, / On which Ideas wont to ride, / Ferment it with a yeasty Storm, / Or with high Floods of Wine deform."
preview | full record— Lloyd, Evan (1734-1776)