Date: 1723
"While shiv'ring Chillness seizes every Vein, / Slackens their Sinews and disturbs their Brain, / Which deep Impressions left of various Kind, / That pain the Body or afflict the Mind."
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Date: 1723
"And now his Spirits by the Impulse move / Of the new Guest [Love], while soft unpractis'd Pains / Throb in his Breast and thrill along his Veins."
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Date: 1723
"Can Pains and Prisons Errour's Force controul, / And the chain'd Body loose the fetter'd Soul?"
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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: 1747
"Since here defective, Heaven be so kind / With never-fading charms to dress my mind"
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Date: 1747
The soul may let in "the baneful poison of repeated sin" as the snuff-taker does snuff
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Date: 1752
" If meer Antiquities of ev'ry kind / Impress a pleasing Rev'rence on the Mind"
preview | full record— Browne, Moses (1706-1787)
Date: 1752
"Yet hold me near Thee; set me as a Seal, / Deep on thy dear dear Heart!"
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Date: 1752
"Go, Christian! with th' endearing Pledges seal'd / Fresh on thy Soul, resembling Pattern show/ How Jesus liv'd"
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Date: 1752
"Their Task discharg'd, and anxious how to lose / The least Impressions, recent on the Heart."
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