Date: 1742
"A soul immortal, spending all her fires, / Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, / Thrown into tumult, raptured, or alarm'd, / At aught this scene can threaten, or indulge, / Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, / To waft a feather, or to drown a fly."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"AN Inward Baptism of Fire / Wherewith to be baptiz'd I have; / 'Tis all my longing Soul's Desire, / This, only This my soul can save."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1743
"With pleased attention midst his scenes we find / Each glowing thought that warms the female mind"
preview | full record— Collins, William (1721-1759)
Date: 1743
"Bound, every heart! and every bosom, burn!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1743
"He, the great Father, kindled at one flame / The world of rationals; one spirit pour'd / From Spirit's awful fountain; pour'd Himself / Through all their souls; but not in equal stream."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1743
"'Reason bids, / All-sacred Reason.'---Hold her sacred still; / Nor shalt thou want a rival in thy flame."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1743
"Think'st thou, Lorenzo , to find pastimes here? / No guilty passion blown into a flame, / No foible flatter'd, dignity disgraced, / No fairy field of fiction, all on flower, / No rainbow colours here, or silken tale."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"When souls take fire / At high presumptions of their own desert, / One age is poor applause; the mighty shout, / The thunder by the living few begun, / Late time must echo; worlds unborn, resound."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"I see, / I feel a grandeur in the Passions too, / Which speaks their high descent, and glorious end; / Which speaks them rays of an eternal fire."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"What wealth in senses such as these! What wealth / In Fancy fired to form a fairer scene / Than Sense surveys! in Memory's firm record!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)