Date: 1761
"[M]any, therefore, may violate that rule of right, which the hand of the Almighty has written upon the living tablets of the heart"
preview | full record— Hawkesworth, John (bap. 1720, d. 1773)
Date: 1761
"But now proceed; / Give me more names; these many I have wrote / Deep in the vengeful tablets of my heart."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1761
"Injurious woman, / Wou'd that men's thoughts were graven on their hearts!"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1762
"Your constant endeavours have been to inculcate the best principles into youthful minds, the only probable means of mending mankind; for the foundation of most of our virtues, or our vices, are laid in that season of life when we are most susceptible of impression, and when our minds, as on a sh...
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1762
"He reverenced and respected her like a divinity, but hoped that prudence might enable him to conquer his passion, at the same time that it had not force enough to determine him to fly her presence, the only possible means of lessening the impression which every hour engraved more deeply on his h...
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1762
"Had the proud exile read my heart, / He then must have appeas'd the woes I suffer'd, / He then had pardon'd, and thou might'st have sooth'd me."
preview | full record— Cradock, Joseph (1742-1826)
Date: 1762
"Engraven on my heart and mind, / O that I could Thy precepts find"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1762
"Lord, with Thy love's acutest dart / Engrave Thy name upon my heart."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1762
"Engraven on my heart and mind, / O that I could Thy precepts find, / Begotten from above"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles