Date: 1774
"Her soul, refin'd from passion's base alloy, / Seem'd wrapt in visions of seraphic joy."
preview | full record— Roberts, William Hayward (d. 1791)
Date: 1774
"Ye self-will'd herd, call Reason to unbend / Your ill-warp'd minds, and to her theme attend."
preview | full record— Bennet, John (fl. 1774-1796)
Date: 1774
"Like to the head o'er which infection reigns, / That soon pollutes the blood in distant veins; / E'en so ill precepts will their poison spread / Among inferiors, when by greatness led."
preview | full record— Bennet, John (fl. 1774-1796)
Date: 1774
"The pupil of impulse, it [his heart] forced him along, / His conduct still right, with his argument wrong; / Still aiming at honour, yet fearing to roam, / The coachman was tipsy, the chariot drove home."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1774
"Reason's Sovereign-Rule" may be denied (by Faith)
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1775
"What numbers censure, but how few judge right, / On subjects, which demand the soul's keen sight"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1775
"Before the queen an oval mirror stands, / The curious labor of her active hands; / Ample its size; of wondrous texture wrought; / With pow'r endu'd, surpassing human thought."
preview | full record— Rack, Edmund (1735-1787)
Date: 1775
"On this deceptive mirror FANCY gaz'd; / For in its field she saw whate'er she pleas'd: / Whate'er in thought her fertile brain design'd, / (The varying labours of her changeful mind,) / Whate'er she wills, within its orb she spies, / True to her wish the airy visions rise."
preview | full record— Rack, Edmund (1735-1787)
Date: 1776
" A father, husband, brother sorrowing weep, / Whose hearts engraven thy fair virtues keep."
preview | full record— Shaw, Cuthbert (1738-1771)
Date: 1775, 1776
"'Let Meekness as a dove / 'Brood in man's heart the sacred acts of Love."
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)