Date: 1726
"'Twould be a bad World with most of us, if Reason were always to rule."
preview | full record— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)
Date: w. 1764, published 1820
"Yet, why repine? What, though by bonds confined, / Should bonds enslave the vigour of the mind?"
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)