Date: 1762
God may "Fix in every heart of man / [His] everlasting throne"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1762
"His Spirit send into our hearts, / Engraving on our inward parts / The living law of holiest love"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1768
A beloved may "o'ercome" a lover's "yielding heart" and fix "her empire there"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1784, 1804
"The apostle wishes and prays that the sovereign and all-conquering grace of God might reign and rule in their hearts and consciences."
preview | full record— Huntington, William (1745-1813)
Date: 1784, 1804
"The apostle well knew that erroneous men would be busy in besieging their understandings, and that carnal objects would be labouring to engross their affections; vanity to entertain their minds, pleasures to attract their desires, and legality to entangle and govern their consciences."
preview | full record— Huntington, William (1745-1813)
Date: 1784, 1804
" When thus entangled we try to resist, but are still rebuffed or beaten back; this causes rebellion and murmuring to take possession of our hearts."
preview | full record— Huntington, William (1745-1813)
Date: 1784, 1804
"[A]nd that the altogether lovely Saviour might be enthroned, exalted, and admired, in the throne of their hearts"
preview | full record— Huntington, William (1745-1813)
Date: 1789, 1797
"Still in this breast shall dearest Emma reign, / Nor e'er my will your virgin choice shall sway."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George Monck (1763-1793)
Date: March 8, 1790
"Love does all day the soul's great empire keep; / But Wine, at night, lulls the soft God asleep."
preview | full record— Kemble, John Philip (1757-1823)
Date: 1805
"And, indeed, so long as chivalry lasted, the minstrels were protected and caressed, because their music tended to do honour to the ruling passion of the times, and to encourage and foment a martial spirit."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)