Date: 1734 [1735?]
"Wrong Turns of Head are Nature's greatest Curse, / Improving ev'ry Day from bad to worse. / In some odd Light all Objects still they view, / Thus true with them is false, and false is true."
preview | full record— Paget, Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget (1689-1742)
Date: 1734 [1735?]
"Deaf to Advice, or taking Wrong for Right, / They boldly blunder on in Reason's Spite; / And under clearer Light's obscure Pretence / Live the Antipodes of common Sense."
preview | full record— Paget, Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget (1689-1742)
Date: 1738, 1792
"But soon a beam, emissive from above, / Shed mental day, and touch'd the heart with love; / Gave jealous rage to know Divine Controul, / And ruled the tempest rising in the soul."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"For, O Gustavus, / My Soul is dark, disconsolate and dark; / Sick to the World, and hateful to myself, / I have no Country now."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)