Date: October, 1739
"Teach me to cool my passion's fires, / Make me the judge of my desires / The master of my heart."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1738, 1739
"For tho' right Reason should her Beams display, / And dart new Lustre on our clouded Way; / Unless Philosophy, with antient Strength, / Support her Empire to Life's utmost Length; / Unless, in Passion's Spite, we dare be free, / (What Few have been, and Few will ever be) / That pristine Turn, th...
preview | full record— Bancks, John (1709-1751)
Date: 1739, 1740
"Was there one joy, whose image does not last? / But that One; most extatic, most refin'd, / Reigns fresh, and will for ever in my mind, / With such a power of charms it storm'd my soul, / That nothing ever can it's strength controul."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1739
"And in my Heart, a little Heav'n, / Thy Throne triumphant raise."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1739
"JESUS makes our Hearts his Throne, / There he lives, and reigns alone."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1739
"O knit my thankful Heart to Thee, / And reign without a Rival there."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1741
"Poor Mind, who heard all with extreme moderation, / Thought it now time to speak, and make her allegation: / ''Tis I that, methinks, have most cause to complain, / Who am cramped and confined like a slave in a chain.'"
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1741
"Early instruct your tender Youth / In Heav'n's unerring Law of Truth, / Engrave it on their Mind."
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1741, 1753
"Tho' smiles, and tears, obey thy moving skill, / And passion's ruffled empire waits thy will?"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1741
"'I've a friend,' answers Mind, 'who, though slow, is yet sure, / And will rid me at last of your insolent power: / Will knock down your walls, the whole fabric demolish, / And at once your strong holds and my slavery abolish: / And while in your dust your dull ruins decay, / I'll snap off my cha...
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)