Date: w. 1740, 1748
"The flannel Crew / With cunning joy the fond repentance view, / Pronounce Him bless'd, his miracles proclaim, / Teach the slight croud t' adore his hallow'd name, / Exalt his praise above the Saints of old, / And coin his sinking conscience into Gold."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1749
"When she, with all the Magnet's Pow'r, / Draws to her sweet enchanting Bow'r / Heroic Souls, and Hearts of Steel."
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1749
"Not all the Gems, which Indian Mines prepare, / Can with that Ruby in thy Soul compare: / Its bright'ning Blaze like Aaron's Breast shall shine, / Alike refulgent, and alike divine"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1749
"Happy soul, as silver tried, / Silver seven times purified, / Love hath broke the rock of stone, / All thy hardness melted down"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1749
"Yes; our soul the iron enters, / Sin is perfect misery"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1749
"Though I have steel'd my stubborn heart"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1749
"From all idolatrous excess, / From earthly dross refine, / And on my simple heart impress / The character Divine"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: w. 1742-1750, 1803
"Ne ought with him availeth sexe or age; / Ne hoary elde, ne tender infant's cries / Can melt his iron heart in any wise"
preview | full record— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
Date: 1750
"A mind in wisdom old, in lenience young, / From fervent truth where every virtue sprung; / Where all was real, modest, plain, sincere; / Worth above show, and goodness unsevere: / View'd round and round, as lucid diamonds throw / Still as you turn them a revolving glow, / So did his mind reflect...
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1751
Religion shall "Shall purge their Minds from all impure Allays / Of sordid Selfishness and brutal Sense,"
preview | full record— West, Gilbert (1703-1756)