Date: 1749
God may "Come quickly" and "in every heart / Set up [His] throne of love
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Date: 1749
"Long did our lusts and passions reign, / And ruled us with an iron rod"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1751
"He stood; content to bow to Custom's Throne, / So Reason mote not blush his sovran Rule to own."
preview | full record— West, Gilbert (1703-1756)
Date: 1751
"And fettering on her Throne th' immortal Mind, / The Guidance of her Realm to Passions wild resign'd."
preview | full record— West, Gilbert (1703-1756)
Date: 1753
Love may "To slighted beauty .. new powers impart: / And stretch the aided empire of the heart"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1754
The "grim natives" of East-Brent were of "reason wholly void, whom instinct rules"
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1754
Reason may rule the mind and keep her God-like seat
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Date: 1763
"Doth Virtue in thy bosom brighter glow, / Or from a Spring more pure doth Action flow? / Is not thy Soul bound with those very chains / Which shackle us, or is that SELF, which reigns / O'er Kings and Beggars, which in all we see / Most strong and sov'reign, only weak in Thee?"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763
"Quit then, in prudence quit, that idle train / Of toys, which have so long abus'd thy brain, / And captive led thy pow'rs; with boundless will / Let SELF maintain her state and empire still."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763
"The Judge within the Mind, shall ev'ry Cause / Impartial weigh, and cancel useless Laws"
preview | full record— Hoyland, Francis (1727-1786)