Date: 1751, 1791
"Passions that flatter, or that slay, / Are beasts that fawn, or birds that prey."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1752, 1791
"Know too, the joys of sense controul, / And clog the motions of the soul; / Forbid her pinions to aspire, / Damp and impair her native fire: / And sure as Sense (that tyrant!) reigns, / She holds the empress, Soul, in chains."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1752, 1791
"When Fancy's airy horse I strode, / And join'd the army on the road."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1754
"This little Bird, when you receive, / An emblem of my heart believe."
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1755
"To Modesty she made severe Pretence; / Under that Mask her Wantonness would hide; / Too thin Disguise! for oft the grosser Sense / Would reassume the Reins, drive over the weaker Fence."
preview | full record— Arnold, Cornelius (b. 1714, d. in or after 1758)
Date: June, 1756
"I sent back memory, in heedful guise, / To search the records of preceding years; / Home, like the raven to the ark, she flies, / Croaking bad tidings to my trembling ears."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1759
A Logician is "one, that has been broke / To Ride and Pace his Reason by the Booke, And by their Rules, and Precepts, and Examples, / To put his wits into a kind of Trammells."
preview | full record— Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)
Date: 1759
"Mankind's the same to Beasts and Fouls / That Devils are to Humane Soules, / Who therefor, when like Fiends th' appeare, / Avoyd and Fly with equal feare."
preview | full record— Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)
Date: 1759
"Their [pedants'] constant overstraining of the Mind / Distorts the Brain, as Horses break their Wind / Or rude Confusions of the Things they read / Get up, like noxious Vapours, in the Head, / Until they have their constant Wanes and Fulls, / And Changes in the Insides of their Skulls."
preview | full record— Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)
Date: 1760?
The Grace teaches "When to check the sportive Vein; / When to Fancy give the Rein."
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)