Date: 1748
Thought is "The lover's heaven, or his hell."
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: 1752, performed 1772
"I flatter'd my poor soul that all its Fears / Were Grief's distemper'd coinage, that my Love / Rais'd causeless apprehensions, and at length / Edgar would quite forgive."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1759, performed 1776
"(If shapes like his be but the fancy's coinage)"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1759, performed 1776
"Steel then, ye Powers of heav'n, / Steel my firm soul with your own fortitude, / Free from alloy of passion."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1759, performed 1776
The soul may be "Snatch'd by the power of music from her cell / Of fleshly thraldom" and feel "herself upborn / On plumes of ecstasy"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: w. 1764
"Take the bloody seal I give thee, / Deep impressed upon thy soul."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1765, 1770
"Till mighty conscience, whose prevailing call / Opes the dread volume of her laws to all."
preview | full record— Wodhull, Michael (1740-1816)
Date: 1765, 1770
"When of old / Arcadia's peaceful shepherds uncontroul'd / Their ranging flocks thro' boundless pastures drove, / Or tun'd their pipes beneath the myrtle grove, / Their laws on brazen tablets unimprest / Were deeply grav'd on each ingenuous breast, / No proud Vicegerent of Astrea reign'd, / Astre...
preview | full record— Wodhull, Michael (1740-1816)
Date: 1765, 1770
"On Life's rough sea by stormy passions tost, / Freedom and Virtue were together lost."
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Date: 1765, 1770
"These baseless structures, fictions light and vain, / Coin'd in the foldings of an idle brain, / To their absurd inventors I resign, / They are not in the Church's creed, or mine."
preview | full record— Wodhull, Michael (1740-1816)