Date: 1755
"But Tears of Joy: For I have seen ZAPHIRA, / And pour'd the Balm of Peace into her Breast"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
"Think not these Tears unnerve me, valiant Friends: / They have but harmoniz'd my Soul; and waked / All that is Man within me, to disdain / Peril, or Death."
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
"Can the troubled Brain / Of Sleep out-stretch the Reason's waking Eye?"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
"Hence--to thy Chamber, till returning Reason / Hath calm'd this Tempest."
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
"Why did I not / Repent, while yet my Crimes were decibel! / Ere they had struck their Colours thro' my Soul, / As black as Night or Hell!"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
"His bold Resolves have steel'd ZAPHIRA's Breast / Against thy Love"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1757
"Let low-bred Minds be curb'd by Laws and Rules, / Our higher Spirit leaps the Bounds of Fools"
preview | full record— Garrick, David (1717-1779)
Date: 1757
"I only told him civilly, Past three o'clock and a cloudy morning!-- [...] --when, heyday! says he, (there he stands, let 'en deny it if he can) and coming up to me--what have we here?-- a human Clock!--a very odd kind of Repeater upon my soul!--one of the hours 'egad strolling about, in a...
preview | full record— Bacon, Phanuel (1700-1783)
Date: 1759, performed 1776
"(If shapes like his be but the fancy's coinage)"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1759, performed 1776
"Steel then, ye Powers of heav'n, / Steel my firm soul with your own fortitude, / Free from alloy of passion."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)