Date: 1738, 1792
"But soon a beam, emissive from above, / Shed mental day, and touch'd the heart with love; / Gave jealous rage to know Divine Controul, / And ruled the tempest rising in the soul."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"Fill our whole Souls with heav'nly Light, / Melt with Seraphick Fire."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1742
"Where heav'nly Reason with her temperate Light, / Teaches th'unbiass'd Mind to judge aright / There Property secure enjoys her own; / There Conscience sits untroubl'd on her Throne"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1744
"Falters thy tongue, and fails to speak, / And heaves thy breast, and droops thy head, / Glimmers the lamp of life, and dies"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1746
"As, from the center of the lamp of day, / Beams after beams-diffusive sweetly play" so flows sweet joy from "the passions of the generous mind"
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James
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)
Date: 1749
"His clouded Soul now darts no dazling Ray, / And faintly warms the animated Clay: / Not Rome's sad Ruins such Impressions leave, / As Reason bury'd in the Body's Grave:"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1753
One may "stoop, with Locke, the Gleams of Thought to scan, / The Infant's dawning Ray, the Noon of Man"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1755
"Oh let me now thy tender Mercy find, / With thy free Grace illuminate my Mind, / Let me no more the Slave of Passion be, / But turn my wand'ring Thoughts to Heav'n and thee."
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1757
"The lamp of sense, that glows in ev'ry breast, / Nature illumes, that man may stand confest"
preview | full record— Boyce, Samuel (d. 1775)