Date: 1713, 1719
"Try the blest Change, and quit your Gown / To share the Pleasures of the Poor; / There free from Pomp and Equipage, carouse, / Unlade your Mind of Business, and unbend your Brows."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1713
"[I]mpetuous Passions" may "toss the Soul, /And Tides of boiling Blood reluctant roll."
preview | full record— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)
Date: 1713
"Imperial Reason keeps her awful Throne, / Above the Tumult reigns unmov'd alone: / At her Command intestine Discords cease, / And all th' inferiour Pow'rs lie hush'd in Peace."
preview | full record— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)
Date: 1714
"Thus when Revenge does Reason's Scepter rule, / It turns the Wisest Statesman to a Fool"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1715
In death "all to the same Dungeon are confin'd" and "No Busie Thoughts invade the Labouring Mind"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1715
"As unregarded thro' the Vaulted Skies, / The Wat'ry South in Noisy Tempest flies: / Just so the vain Expressions touch our Mind, / Nor any strong Impressions leave behind."
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Date: 1715
"When all alone she was surpriz'd to find / Such strong Impressions on her feeble Mind."
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Date: 1715
"He Steels his Heart, unknowing to repent"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1715
"What steely Heart can bear, what Tongue recite / The mortal Terrors of that dreadful Night?"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1715
"No crafty Machiavelian Arts possest / The pious Closets of his Royal Breast"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)