Date: 1730, 1744, 1746
"While he, from all the stormy passions free / That restless men involve, hears, and but hears, / At distance safe, the human tempest roar, / Wrapp'd close in conscious peace."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1732
"Thoughts dash on Thoughts, as Waves on Waves increase, / And Storms, of his own raising, wreck his Peace."
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1733-4
"Better for Us, perhaps, it might appear, / Were there all harmony, all virtue here; / That never air or ocean felt the wind; /That never passion discompos'd the mind: / But All subsists by elemental strife; / And Passions are the Elements of life. "
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1733-4
"On Life's vast ocean diversely we sail, / Reason the card, but Passion is the gale."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1733-4
"A mightier Pow'r the strong direction sends, / And sev'ral Men impels to sev'ral ends. / Like varying winds, by other passions tost, / This drives them constant to a certain coast."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1734
"My frame of nature is a ruffled sea, / And my disease the tempest."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1734
"Is then my heart to all the world beside / Softer than melting wax or summer snow, / But to myself harder than adamant?"
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1734
"I'm in a raging storm, / Where seas and skies are blended, while my soul / Like some light worthless chip of floating cork / Is tost from wave to wave."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1735, 1763
"Each publick passion bound to endless frost, / Each deed of social worth for ever lost."
preview | full record— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)
Date: 1735, 1792
"The blood tempestuous, pours a flushing wave" and "With raging swell alternate pantings rise"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)