Date: 1712
"The ready Phantomes at her Nod advance, / And form the busie Intellectual Dance: / While her fair Scenes to vary, or supply, / She singles out fit Images, that lye / In Memory's Records, which faithful hold / Objects immense in secret Marks inroll'd, / The sleeping Forms at her Command awake, / ...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1714
The Soul returns "Naked from off this Beach and perfect Blank, / To visit the New World."
preview | full record— Evans, Abel (1679-1737)
Date: 1719
"Than from this Mind, O! venerable Shade, / Th'Impression be eras'd thy Words have made."
preview | full record— Breval, John Durant (1680/81-1738)
Date: 1733
"[M]eeting virtues" may be "perfectly imprest / On sacred Sheets, in thy Ethereal Breast"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1736, 1743
In youth "Fancy's mimick Pow'r is warm and strong, / Engraving deeply, and retaining long"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: February 1738
One may be " In State most desponding, by the Light of a Taper, / With Thoughts dull and dark as my Wax, or my Paper"
preview | full record— Tickell, Thomas (1685-1740)
Date: 1739
"True Witness of my Sonship Thou, / Engraving Pardon on my Heart: / Seal of my Sins in CHRIST forgiven, / Earnest of Love, and Pledge of Heav'n."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1739
"Father, all thy Commands to do: / Ah deep engrave it on my Breast, / That I in Thee ev'n now am blest."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1749
"With a diamond's point it [sin] stands / Engraven on my heart / Wrote by mine, and Satan's hands / It mocks the' eraser's art."
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Date: 1749
"See Lord, the Object of thy Love, / And O come quickly from above, / The Blessing to impart, / Him to Thyself by Faith unite, / And in large bloody Letters write / Forgiveness on his Heart."
preview | full record— Wesley, Charles (1707-1788)