Date: 1772
"Father, Son, and Spirit enter, / Seal my soul for ever Thine!"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1773
"What tho' no Objects strike upon the Sight,-- / Thy Sacred Presence is an inward Light."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1764, 1773
"Such is my theme, which means to prove, / That tho' we drink, or game, or love, / As that or this is most in fashion, / Precedence is our ruling passion."
preview | full record— Shenstone, William (1714-1763)
Date: 1764, 1773
"And souls, however mean or vile, / Like features, brighten by a smile."
preview | full record— Shenstone, William (1714-1763)
Date: 1773
"Not all their cruelty (the fair rejoin'd) / Shall ever boast a conquest o'er my mind"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1773
"A thought, enbosom'd in this heart's recess / Shou'd, rising into act--Ah spare the rest!"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1773
"'Prepare (he said) the tragic scene to close, / 'And shun the fate that iron-hearts impose"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1773
"Know, lovely virgin, thy deluding art / Hath lodg'd a thousand scorpions in my breast:"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1773
"There, whilst the vault resounds my plaintive sigh, / In deathful echoes, shall Despondence bring / The saddest visions on the mind's wan eye, / That ever wav'd on Fancy's blackest wing"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1773, 1810
"Must not a being, then, by nature wrought, / To show her power in matter, and in thought, /Each light impression thrilling through his frame, /Inspired by heaven's most sublimated flame;"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)