Date: 1747
"And it must be a thorough Acquaintance with her too, that will ever make an Impression on my Heart."
preview | full record— Hoadly, Benjamin (1706-1757)
Date: 1755
"He bade me tell thee, / That in his Heart indelibly are stamp'd / His Father's Wrongs, and Thine."
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1761
"But Heaven that gave a blessing to our bed, / Stampt the great Law of Nature on my heart, / And bound me to it by the sacred ties / Of fatherly affection."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: w. 1795-1796, first published 1842
"In these my lonely wanderings I perceived / What mighty objects do impress their forms / To elevate our intellectual being."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)