Date: 1767
"The witness breathe into my heart, / And seal my sins forgiven."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1767
"But graciously forgive me, / And seal it on my heart."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1767
"And fill up all Thy human shrine, / And seal our souls for ever Thine"
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Date: 1767, 1784
"Shall we, because we strive in vain to tell / How Matter acts on incorporeal Mind, / Or how, when sleep has lock'd up ev'ry sense, / Or fevers rage, Imagination paints / Unreal scenes, reject what sober sense, / And calmest thought attest?"
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1769
"For every Creature of this World, animate or inanimate, is in its Degree, a Microcosm of all the Powers, that are in the great World, of which it is a Part."
preview | full record— Law, William (1686-1761)
Date: October 10, 1769
"My imagination without wing or broom stick off mounts aloft, rises into ye Regions of pure space, and without lett or impediment bears me to your fireside, where you can set me in your easy chair, and we talk and reason, as angel Host and guest Aetherial should do, of high and important matters."
preview | full record— Montagu [née Robinson], Elizabeth (1718-1800)
Date: 1769
"Deprived by their extreme ignorance, and that indolence which nothing but their ardor for war can surmount, of all the conveniencies, as well as elegant refinements of polished life; strangers to the softer passions, love being with them on the same footing as amongst their fellow-tenants of the...
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1770
"Excursive thought" may "Stand still a moment, and by reason taught / Judge rightly, with strict eye thyself survey"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"Though Fancy under Reason's lash may fall, / Yet Fancy in Religion's all in all"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1770-1
"This rather disconcerted his scheme, and set him a scratching, that being a kind of involuntary motion with him, whenever a train of ideas kept whirling in his brain with such velocity that he could not fix on any single one to stick by, and let the rest whirl out the way they came in."
preview | full record— Bridges, Thomas (b. 1710?, d. in or after 1775)