Date: 1742
"Thy presence, Lord, the place shall fill, / My heart shall be Thy throne, / Thy holy, just, and perfect will / Shall in my flesh be done."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1743
"To lift my Vot'ries, in this partial Age, /Pleas'd without Pomp, self-conscious, and alone, / Nor rais'd, thus light, on Fancy's airy Throne"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1745
"He who his rising Anger can't controul, / Shall rue the Sallies of his heated Soul, / Shall wish, in Agony of Heart, undone / What Passion will'd in absent Reason's Throne."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1745
"Anger's a short-liv'd Madness, and with Sway, / Rules Sovereign if not tutor'd to obey"
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1747
"Strange force of Harmony, whose Power controuls, / The warring Passions, and informs our Souls, / Soft soothing Sounds, by whose enchantment blest, / Anger and Grief forsake the tranquil Breast; / While soft Ideas rising in the Mind, / Bids us in Love a gentle Tyrant find, / And to his Sway the ...
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1747
"VENUS, Queen of tender Fires, / Pleasing Pains, and soft Desires; / Sweet Enslaver of the Heart, / Here thy gentle Aid impart."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1747
"Hither beauteous Goddess move, / Leave a while th' Idalian Grove; / Once more to my transported Breast, / Come a mild, a grateful Guest; / There confirm thy pleasing Reign, / Free from Cares, and free from Pain."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1747
"No longer Hope and Fear maintain / Within your Breast a doubtful Reign."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1747
"Oh Love, all-powerful o'er the Mind, / Art thou to rigid rules confin'd? / And must the Heart that owns thy Sway, / That Tyrant Customs Laws obey?"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1747
"Me she instructed in each secret Art, / How to enslave, and keep the vanquish'd Heart."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)