Date: 1727
"Numps was rough, / No Heart of Oak was half so tough, / And true as Steel"
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1727
"Be husht ye Winds, be still ye Seas, / Ye Billows sleep at ease, / And in your rocky Caverns rest, / Let all be Calm as the Great Hero's Breast."
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1735
"As if thy thrifty Soul foreknew, / Like a wise Envoy, Heav'n's Intent / Soon to recall whom it had sent, / And all its Task resolv'd at once to do."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1735
"The Soul / Of Man alone, that Particle divine, / Escapes the Wreck of Worlds, when all Things fail."
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1734-1735
"Hark! she invites from city smoke and noise, / Vapours impure, and from impurer joys; / From various evils, that, with rage combin'd, / Untune the body, and pollute the mind."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1736
"Each keeps the other's Image in his Breast, / As Wax preserves the Form a Seal imprest."
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1736, 1743
"Hail, heav'n-born Piety! unknown / Where mad Ambition taints the Mind."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1736, 1743
"But Care no Desert can exclude, / We haunt ourselves in Solitude."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1739
"True Witness of my Sonship Thou, / Engraving Pardon on my Heart: / Seal of my Sins in CHRIST forgiven, / Earnest of Love, and Pledge of Heav'n."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1739
"Thy wounds upon my heart impress, / Nor [a]ught shall the loved stamp efface"
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