Date: 1757, 1758, 1771, 1777
"Queen of the human heart! at whose command / The swelling tides of mighty Passion rise."
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1758
"A Soul conversant with Virtue, resembles a perpetual Fountain: for it is clear, and gentle, and potable, and sweet, and communicative, and rich, and harmless, and innocent."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1758
"If, therefore, you would be a musical and harmonious Person, whenever, in Parties of Drinking, the Soul is bedewed with Wine, suffer her not to go forth, and defile herself [like a snail]."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1759
"But as to the singular talent so remarkable in Euripides, at melting down hearts into the tender streams of grief and pity, there the resemblance fails."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1759
"Their grief, however, like their joy, was transient; every thing floated in their mind unconnected with the past or future, so that one desire easily gave way to another, as a second stone cast into the water effaces and confounds the circles of the first."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1762
"Till then the hope, by Damon's vows betray'd, / And wand'ring long on Passion's stormy seas, / By his unerring guidance safely led, / Shall fix her anchor on the rock of Peace."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: w. 1741, 1762
"Thou restless fluctuating Deep, / Expressive of the human Mind, / In thy for ever varying Form, / My own inconstant Self I find."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: w. 1741, 1762
"Blest Emblem of that equal State, / Which I this Moment feel within: / Where Thought to Thought succeeding rolls, / And all is placid and serene."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1662, 1762
"My soul melteth away for very heaviness: comfort thou me according unto thy word."
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