Date: 1742
"Thought, too, deliver'd, is the more possess'd: / Teaching we learn; and giving we retain / The births of intellect; when dumb, forgot."
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Date: 1742
"Through chinks, styled organs, dim Life peeps at light; / Death bursts the' involving cloud, and all is day; / All eye, all ear, the disembodied power."
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Date: 1742
"Is not the mighty mind, that son of heaven, / By tyrant Life dethroned, imprison'd, pain'd? / By Death enlarged, ennobled, deified? / Death but entombs the body; Life, the soul."
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Date: 1742
"Yet man (fool man!) here buries all his thoughts; / Inters celestial hopes without one sigh."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"All men think all men mortal but themselves; / Themselves, when some alarming shock of Fate / Strikes through their wounded hearts the sudden dread."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, / Soon close; where pass'd the shaft, no trace is found. / As from the wing no scar the sky retains, / The parted wave no furrow from the keel, / So dies in human hearts the thought of death."
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Date: 1742
"My Ethiop soul shall change her skin; / Redeem'd from all iniquity."
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Date: 1742
"But Thou canst wash the leper clean, / The stone to flesh convert, / Canst make the Ethiop change his skin, / And purify my heart ."
preview | full record— Wesley, Charles (1707-1788)
Date: 1743
The wounded heart may be supported by songs and healed by morals
preview | full record— Collins, William (1721-1759)