Date: 1756
"Haste, haste thee quickly to my aid, / And tune my jarring soul to love."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1757
"We have on such occasions found, if I am not much mistaken, the temper of our minds in a tenor very remote from that which attends the presence of positive pleasure; we have found them in a state of much sobriety, impressed with a sense of awe, in a sort of tranquillity shadowed with horror"
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1761
"Wake my Harp! to melting Measures, / Pour thy softest, sweetest Treasures, / Such as lift the Thoughts on high; / 'Till the rapt Soul, Earth forsaking, / Heaven-ward it's Flight is taking, / On the Wings of Harmony."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1761
"Our General amidst the Noise of War, / Has a Soul tun'd to all the softer Passions."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"It must, it must surely be, that this jarring discordant life is but the prelude to some future harmony; the soul attuned to virtue here, shall go from hence to fill up the universal choir where Tien presides in person, where there shall be no tyrants to frown, no shackles to bind, nor no whips ...
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1768
"Why does my pulse beat languid as I write this? and what made La Fleur, whose heart seem'd only to be tuned to joy, to pass the back of his hand twice across his eyes, as the woman stood and told it?"
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)