Date: 1730, 1731
"But now, my Muse, the arduous Task engage, / And show the Charming Figure on the Stage, / Describe her Look, her Action, Voice and Mein, / The gay Coquette, soft Maid, or haughty Queen, / So bright she [Mrs. Oldfield] shone in every different Part, / She gain'd despotick Empire o'er the Heart, /...
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1731-1732, 1777
"Your poet shall allot your Lord his part, / And paint him in his noblest throne--your heart."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1733
"Swell'd with vain Learning, vainer Man conceives, / That 'tis with him the bright Minerva lives; / That she descends to dwell with him alone, / And in his Breast erects her starry Throne."
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733
Base usurpers of the soul may be gone, "and Reason long depos'd regains her Throne"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1736, 1743
"Th' identick Shape thy Fancy would retain, / Engraven in eternal Characters / While Memory holds its Empire in the Brain."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1737
"Her lovely image, on his mind impress'd, / Had fix'd her empire in his yielding breast."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
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."
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Date: 1739
"O knit my thankful Heart to Thee, / And reign without a Rival there."
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Date: 1742
"Surely He shall the mourner cheer, / And make the broken heart His throne; / Shall break it first, and then bind up."
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