Date: 1762-3
"Let those who rigid judgment own / Submissive bow at Judgment's throne, / And if they of no value hold / Pleasure, till pleasure is grown cold, / Pall'd and insipid, forced to wait / For Judgment's regular debate / To give it warrant, let them find / Dull subjects suited to their mind."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1762
"I'm speaking of thy mind alone; / Where keen reproaches all resort, / Where biting scandal holds her court; / From whence she throws her pois'nous dart / At ev'ry unprovoking heart."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: w. c. 1762, 1850
"For love, I fear, corrupts the judge within."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: September 1762; 1774
"Some vices must to all appear / As constitutional as Fear; / And every Moralist will find / A ruling passion in the mind."
preview | full record— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)
Date: September 1762; 1774
"And every Moralist will find / A ruling passion in the mind: / Which, tho' pent up and barricado'd / Like winds, where Æolus bravado'd; / Like them, will sally from their den, / And raise a tempest now and then; / Unhinge dame Prudence from her plan, / And ruffle all the world of man."
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Date: 1762
"Engraven on my heart and mind, / O that I could Thy precepts find"
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Date: 1762
"I cannot reach that heavenly shore, / The gusts of passion rise / So fierce, so high the billows roll, / And on this long afflicted soul / So huge a tempest lies"
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Date: 1762
"Yet with the mind of Jesus steel'd / He cannot to entreaties yield"
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Date: 1762
"The true heavenly David give, / The just and loving One, / After Thine own heart, to live, / And fix in us His throne."
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Date: 1762
"Come, and 'stablish in my heart / Thine everlasting throne."
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