Date: 1727
"Death's cold Hand arrests the Fears / That haunt the Coward's Mind"
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1727, 1739
"The Friend of Life! Death unrelenting bears / An iron Heart, and laughs at human Cares."
preview | full record— Broome, William (1689-1745); Hesiod
Date: 1713, 1729
Bacchus may calm a stormy soul and "place ... Reason in its Throne again"
preview | full record— Carey, Henry (1687-1743)
Date: 1731
"I've try'd all Arts my Passion to controul, / And still the giddy Tumult of my Soul; / But all in vain, no Charm has Strength to bind, / In lasting Chains, my wild disorder'd Mind."
preview | full record— Thompson, Isaac (1703-1776)
Date: 1731
The soul may join "her great Original," "Like a Sun Beam that springs with vibrant Force, / And darts to meet its ever-glorious Source"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1731
"Or here on Earth in diff'rent Bodies plac'd, / Still Acts new Scenes, forgetful of the past: / Till from her dull material Chain set free, / (The mortal Curtain drawn) she smiles to see, / The various Prospects of Immensity."
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1731
"Here Arlington, thy mighty Mind disdains / Inferior Earth, and breaks its servile Chains, / Aloft on Contemplations Wings you rise, / Scorn all below and mingle with the Skies."
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1731
"Worn out with Cares, and tott'ring in her Seat, / The Soul resigns her Throne, and seeks Retreat."
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1735
"Impenetrable Courage steels his manly Breast"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1738, 1792
"But soon a beam, emissive from above, / Shed mental day, and touch'd the heart with love; / Gave jealous rage to know Divine Controul, / And ruled the tempest rising in the soul."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)