Date: 1736, 1743
In youth "Fancy's mimick Pow'r is warm and strong, / Engraving deeply, and retaining long"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: February 1738
One may be " In State most desponding, by the Light of a Taper, / With Thoughts dull and dark as my Wax, or my Paper"
preview | full record— Tickell, Thomas (1685-1740)
Date: 1739
"True Witness of my Sonship Thou, / Engraving Pardon on my Heart: / Seal of my Sins in CHRIST forgiven, / Earnest of Love, and Pledge of Heav'n."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1739
"Father, all thy Commands to do: / Ah deep engrave it on my Breast, / That I in Thee ev'n now am blest."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1746
"So books, not well digested, blot the mind, / But make us - in search of wisdom - blind"
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James
Date: 1749
"With a diamond's point it [sin] stands / Engraven on my heart / Wrote by mine, and Satan's hands / It mocks the' eraser's art."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1749
"See Lord, the Object of thy Love, / And O come quickly from above, / The Blessing to impart, / Him to Thyself by Faith unite, / And in large bloody Letters write / Forgiveness on his Heart."
preview | full record— Wesley, Charles (1707-1788)
Date: 1749
Those who know the righteousness of faith may "lovingly obedient show / The law engraven on [their] hearts."
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Date: 1753
Locke's "guiding Hand th'ideal Blank explores, / And opens wide the Senses' various Doors, / Thro' which the thronging Thoughts their Passage find, / In social Tribes, and stock the peopled Mind."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)