Date: 1754
One may be raised on "Virtue's turret"
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1754
"O, come; indignant, drive out, far beyond/ The utmost Precincts of the human Breast, / Beyond the Springs of Hope, the Cells of Joy, / And ev'ry Mansion where a Virtue lives; / O drive far off, for ever drive that Bane, / That hideous Pest, engender'd deep in Hell, / Where Stygian Glooms condens...
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1754
"Come Courage, foremost in the manly Train; / Come all; and in the honest Heart abide, / Your native Residence, your Fortress still, / From real or from fancy'd Evils free"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1754
"Ah! see, how Fear, / How Dread, distort the Face, and fix the Eye, / The pallid Eye, that Window of the Soul"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1756
"Oh, God of Sleep! arise, and spread / Thy healing vapours round my head; / To thy friendly mansions take, / My soul that burns, / Till he returns, / For whom alone I wish to wake."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
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: 1760, 1850
"Yet still in fancy's painted cells / The soul-inflaming image dwells."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1765
"O ye pure inmates of the gentle breast, / Truth, Freedom, Love, O where is your abode?"
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1766
"Curse not the king, yea, no not in thy thought, / Nor in thy closet curse the rich for ought"
preview | full record— Nicol, Alexander (bap. 1703)
Date: 1766
"Her breast is like a cabinet of goud, / Wherein the richest jewels are bestow'd"
preview | full record— Nicol, Alexander (bap. 1703)