Date: 1739
"JESUS makes our Hearts his Throne, / There he lives, and reigns alone."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1739
"O knit my thankful Heart to Thee, / And reign without a Rival there."
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Date: 1740
"My Mind, my Mind is a Kingdom to me!"
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"I believe it would not be amiss, that he should have a Taste of Poetry, altho' perhaps it were not to be wish'd he had such strong Inclinations that way, as to make that lively and delectable Amusement his predominant Passion."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"Our Passions gone, and Reason in her Throne / Amaz'd, we see the Mischiefs we have done."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
Mr B. is "a young Gentleman of violent and lawless Passions"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"But if otherwise, he may take Advantage of the Confidence plac'd in him, to the Injury of some worthy Person, and by Degrees monopolize the young Gentleman to himself, and govern his Passions as absolurely, as I have heard some First Ministers have done those of their Prince"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1741
"Early instruct your tender Youth / In Heav'n's unerring Law of Truth, / Engrave it on their Mind."
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1741, 1753
"Tho' smiles, and tears, obey thy moving skill, / And passion's ruffled empire waits thy will?"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1741
"Happy Souls, who keep such a sacred Dominion over their inferior and animal Powers, and all the Influences of Pride and secular interest, that the sensitive Tumults or these vicious Influences never rise to disturb the superior and better Operations of the reasoning Mind!"
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)