Date: 1754
"Then thus Philantha, in whose breast / Good-nature is a constant guest,"
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1755
"My heart was free from care: / Love was a stranger to my breast"
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: 1756, 1793
"Domestic troubles long my mind oppress'd, / And made the muse a stranger to my breast"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1756, 1793
"'Thought crowds on thought, my brisk ideas flow, / 'And much I long to tell, and much to know"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1746, 1757
"If Pity be no Stranger to thy Breast, / (As sure it should not to a Breast like thine, / Soft as the Swanny Down!) relenting, hear"
preview | full record— Thompson, William (bap. 1712, d.c. 1766)
Date: 1757
"Let heav'n-born Mercy ever fill thy Breast, / And Truth be there an ever constant Guest."
preview | full record— Arnold, Cornelius (b. 1714, d. in or after 1758?)
Date: w. 1755-1757, 1768
Unborn ages may crowd on the soul
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1759
"Peaceful virtues" dwell within the "sacred cell" of the heart
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: October 13, 1759
"My heart, a victim to thine eyes, / Should I at once deliver, / Say, would the angry fair one prize / The gift, who slights the giver?"
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1759
"Refine you Spirit, with assiduous Care, / From ev'ry vicious Weed, your Virtue clear; / Virtue, and Vice, grow in the human Mind, / Like Corn, and Weeds, together closely join'd; / Extirpate Self-conceit, the worst of Weeds, / That checks the Growth of intellectual Seeds; / Each rebel Passion, ...
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)