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Date: 1734
"Of brass his heart who durst explore,-- / Lock'd up in triple brass, and more,"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1737
"Yet when my trembling Soul's dislodg'd, wou'd be / No Room of State within the Grave for me."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1741
"But Thou shalt rise superior to their Arts, / And fix Thy Empire in a People's Hearts."
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1743
"With pleased attention midst his scenes we find / Each glowing thought that warms the female mind"
preview | full record— Collins, William (1721-1759)
Date: 1743
"Where'er we turn, by Fancy charmed, we find / Some sweet illusion of the cheated mind. / Oft, wild of wing, she calls the soul to rove / With humbler nature in the rural grove."
preview | full record— Collins, William (1721-1759)
Date: 1743
The wounded heart may be supported by songs and healed by morals
preview | full record— Collins, William (1721-1759)
Date: 1747
Johnson's dictionary may "awaken to the care of purer diction some men of genius, whose attention to argument makes them negligent of style, or whose rapid imagination, like the Peruvian torrents, when it brings down gold, mingles it with sand."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: w. 1736, 1749
"Why should I drag along this life I hate, / Without one thought to mitigate the weight? / Whence this mysterious bearing to exist, / When every joy is lost, and every hope dismissed? / In chains and darkness wherefore should I stay, / And mourn in prison, while I keep the key?"
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)
