"This brood of hell man's ev'ry part, / My soul keeps as her own, / 'Gainst God that made me; in my heart / They [sins] do erect their throne."
A Soliloquy for an Unregenerate Sinner [from Poems]
2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1739, 1766).<br>
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Text from <u>Poems on Several Subjects, Both Comical and Serious. In Two Parts. By Alexander Nicol, Schoolmaster. To Which Are Added, the Experienced Gentleman, and the She Anchoret; Written in Cromwell's Time, by the then Duchess of Newcastle.</u> (Edinburgh: Printed for the author, and James Stark Bookseller in Dundee; and sold by him and the other Booksellers in town and country, 1766). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T56509">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111726778&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Found also in <u>Nature's Progress in Poetry, Being a Collection of Serious Poems. By Alexander Nicol, Teacher of English at Abernyte.</u> (Edinburgh, 1739). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3310994337&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt