Date: 1767, 1778
"Victorious in thy march, triumphant move, / Arm'd by each grace, each virtue, and each love; / These inmates firm, these bright, these strong allies, / Reign in thy soul, and conquer in thy eyes."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1767, 1778
"Here science, like the sun, see radiant rise, / With intellectual beam, through mental skies, / To gild, to gladden all th' improving space, / With taste, with candor, learning, sense, and grace; / To light up all the mind's remotest cells, / Where fancy fledges, and where genius dwells."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1778, 1804
"The stranger, Reason, cross'd her way."
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1773, 1778
"The Passions there embody'd throng, / On mental Pinions, swift, and strong, / In Robes array'd of various Fire"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1779
Jesus may "inhabitest the humble mind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1780
"Tread down Thy foes, with power control / The beast and devil in my soul."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1781
"Her teeming Thoughts with bright Conceptions glow, / Ideas crowd, and Lines spontaneous flow."
preview | full record— Keate, George (1729-1797)
Date: 1781
"Fashion's pert tricks the crowded brain oppress / With all the poor parade of tawdry dress:"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1781
"For when Care or dull Sorrow perplexes our breasts,
He can banish the Senses that harbour such Guests!"
preview | full record— Tickell, Richard (1751-1793)
Date: 1782
Homer's "Song arose / As the good Parson's quiet Sermon grows; / Who, while his easy thoughts no pressure find / From hosts of images that crowd the mind, / First calmly settles on some moral text, / Then creeps--from one division--to the next"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)