Date: 1700
"He knows those Strings to touch with artful Hand / Which rule Mankind, and all the World command: / What moves the Soul, and every secret Cell / Where Pity, Love, and all the Passions dwell."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1708
"But round their Sockets did he rowl / The little Windows of his Soul"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1710
"The Saints began with all their art, / To vouch their Zeal to Q*****n, and Court, / In such Addresses as might best / Open the Windows of their Breast, / That Sacred Majesty might see / Their Ancient Love and Loyalty"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1710
"Curse on that foppish Name, that empty Sound ['Honour'], / In whose dark Maze Mens Intellects are drown'd."
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Date: 1712, 1719
"Whilst with the same resistless Art / She storms his Windows, and his Heart"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1715
"No crafty Machiavelian Arts possest / The pious Closets of his Royal Breast"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1715
"Or can they ought that's mean, when God has set / A Jewel in their earthly Cabinet?"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1722
"Furnish'd with nothing but a faithless Breast, / Where only filthy Lusts and Passions dwell, Like Dirt and Cobwebs in a Hermet's Cell."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1735, 1745
"Only to trifle sev'nty Years away / In this frail Flesh, this Tenement of Clay, / In Doubt, in Fear, in Sorrow, in Despair, / Then cease to be, and vanish into Air?"
preview | full record— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)
Date: 1773
"Sincere Devotion needs no outward shrine: / The Centre of an humble Soul is Thine."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)