Date: 1746; December 17, 1747 [actually January, 1748]
"O Pallas! Queen of ev’ry art / That glads the sense, or mends the heart, / Blest source of purer joys: / In ev’ry form of beauty bright, / That captivates the mental sight, / With pleasure and surprize!"
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1746; December 17, 1747 [actually January, 1748]
"To me thy better gifts impart, / Each moral beauty of the heart / By studious thought refin’d: / For Wealth, the smiles of glad Content, / For Pow’r, it samplest, best extent, / An empire o’er my mind."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1746; December 17, 1747 [actually January, 1748]
"The Passions ceas’d their loud alarms, / And Virtue’s soft persuasive charms / O’er all their senses stole."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1746; December 17, 1747 [actually January, 1748]
"No more to fabled names confin’d, / To Thee! Supreme, all-perfect mind, / My thoughts direct their flight: / Wisdom’s thy gift, and all her force / From Thee deriv’d, unchanging source / Of intellectual light!"
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1747
"Love only could conquer so stubborn an heart"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1747
Jesus can vindicate his "right Divine" and "Conquer this rebellious heart"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1747
"Come, sinners, to the gospel feast, / Let every soul be Jesu's guest"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1747
"And it must be a thorough Acquaintance with her too, that will ever make an Impression on my Heart."
preview | full record— Hoadly, Benjamin (1706-1757)
Date: 1747
"Not fuller than my Head, Sir, I promise you."
preview | full record— Hoadly, Benjamin (1706-1757)
Date: 1747
"Her Mind does all their glorious Beams dispense, / Bright as they are they owe their Rays to Sense."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)