Date: 1717
"Some livelier Spark of Heav'n, and more refin'd / From earthly Dross, fills the great Poet's Mind."
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Date: 1720
"Parthenia's breast is steel'd with real scorn"
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
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
"Th' identick Shape thy Fancy would retain, / Engraven in eternal Characters / While Memory holds its Empire in the Brain."
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: 1736, 1743
In youth "Fancy's mimick Pow'r is warm and strong, / Engraving deeply, and retaining long"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1736, 1743
"The Signet thus cast in the best-wrought Mould, / Imprints no Likeness when the Wax is cold."
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Date: 1739
"And in my Heart, a little Heav'n, / Thy Throne triumphant raise."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1739
"JESUS makes our Hearts his Throne, / There he lives, and reigns alone."
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Date: 1739
"O come, and consecrate my Breast: / The Temple of my Soul prepare, / And six thy Sacred Presence there!"
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