Date: 1771
"When we contemplate a Portrait, without thinking of whom it is the Portrait, such Contemplation is analogous to PHANSY. When we view it with reference to the Original, whom it represents, such Contemplation is analogous to MEMORY"
preview | full record— Harris, James (1709-1780)
Date: 1755, 1771
"In every human breast there lives enshrined / Some atom pregnant with the' etherial mind; / Some plastic power, some intellectual ray, / Some genial sunbeam from the source of day; / Something that, warm and restless to aspire, / Works the young heart, and sets the soul on fire, / And bids us al...
preview | full record— Cawthorn, James (1719-1761)
Date: 1755, 1771
"Tasteless of all that virtue gives to please, / For thought too active, and too mad for ease, / From wish to wish in life's mad vortex toss'd, / For ever struggling, and for ever lost; / He scorns religion, though her seraphs call, / And lives in rapture, or not lives at all."
preview | full record— Cawthorn, James (1719-1761)
Date: 1771, 1772
"Then weigh the balance in your mind, / Look forward, not one glance behind"
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: w. 1772
"The herald spake; the grace appear'd, / And stamp'd salvation on her heart."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1772
"Thou only canst my soul prepare, / And stamp me with Thy character"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1772
"Father, Son, and Spirit enter, / Seal my soul for ever Thine!"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1773
"Not all the storms that shake the pole / Can e'er disturb thy halcyon soul, / And smooth unaltered brow."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"Till every worldly thought within me dies, / And earth's gay pageants vanish from my eyes; / Till all my sense is lost in infinite, / And one vast object fills my aching sight."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"Sincere Devotion needs no outward shrine: / The Centre of an humble Soul is Thine."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)