Date: 1739
"Hourly within my Breast renew / This holy Flame, this heav'nly Fire; / And Day and Night be all my Care / To guard this sacred Treasure there."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1744
"What wealth in senses such as these! What wealth / In Fancy fired to form a fairer scene / Than Sense surveys! in Memory's firm record!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1825
"Thus, when the fervid Passions cool, / And Judgement, late, begins to rule; / When Reason mounts her throne serene, / And social Friendship gilds the scene; / When man, of ripened powers possest, / Broods o'er the treasures of his breast; / Exults, in conscious worth elate, / Lord of himself--al...
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)