Date: 1749
God may one's "longing heart vouchsafe to make / [His] everlasting throne"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1749
God may "Come quickly" and "in every heart / Set up [His] throne of love
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Date: 1749
"Long did our lusts and passions reign, / And ruled us with an iron rod"
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Date: 1751
"He stood; content to bow to Custom's Throne, / So Reason mote not blush his sovran Rule to own."
preview | full record— West, Gilbert (1703-1756)
Date: 1751
"And fettering on her Throne th' immortal Mind, / The Guidance of her Realm to Passions wild resign'd."
preview | full record— West, Gilbert (1703-1756)
Date: 1751, 1768
"When reason rules, what glory does ensue."
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)
Date: 1751
"But sure thy mind was meant the court of love, / Soft as the joys, that yielding virgins move."
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Date: 1751, 1791
"Some few there are of sordid mould, / Who barter youth and bloom for gold; / Careless with what, or whom they mate, / Their ruling passion's all for state."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1751, 1791
"To Fancy's court we strait apply, / And wait the sentence of her eye."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1751, 1791
"The passions are a num'rous crowd, / Imperious, positive, and loud: / Curb these licentious sons of strife; / Hence chiefly rise the storms of life: / If they grow mutinous, and rave, / They are thy masters, thou their slave."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)