Date: 1745
"New to each hour what low delight succeeds, / What precious furniture of hearts and heads!"
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1745
"He who his rising Anger can't controul, / Shall rue the Sallies of his heated Soul, / Shall wish, in Agony of Heart, undone / What Passion will'd in absent Reason's Throne."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1745
"Anger's a short-liv'd Madness, and with Sway, / Rules Sovereign if not tutor'd to obey"
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1745
"Keep strongly in the hot rebellious Mind, / Be it with Bits restrain'd, and Curbs confin'd. / The docile Horse in prime of Years is broke / To bear the Rein, or stretch beneath the Yoke."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1745
"Drink early then, my Friend, at Reason's Bowl, / And fill with wholesome Draughts thy youthful Soul. / If Wine or Gall the Recent Vessel stains, / Each Scent alike the faithful Cask retains."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1745
"The Spirit's attesting seal impart, / And speak to every sinner's heart"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1745
"Stamp us with the stamp Divine, / Seal our souls for ever Thine"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1745
"The body is but the house; the soul is the tenant that inhabits it; the body is the instrument; the soul the artist that directs it."
preview | full record— Mason, John (1706-1763)
Date: 1745
"It was He that placed thee in this body, as in a prison: where thy capacities are cramped, thy desires debased, and thy liberty lost."
preview | full record— Mason, John (1706-1763)
Date: 1745
"'I am too noble, and of too high a birth,' saith that excellent moralist, 'to be a slave to my body; which I look upon only as a chain thrown upon the liberty of my soul.'"
preview | full record— Mason, John (1706-1763)