Date: 1759
"If you, these moral Truths, would comprehend, / To moral Writers, your Attention lend; / By reading them, you'll Wisdom's Honey gain, / And with her golden Stores, inrich your Brain."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1759
"Minds slothful, like uncultivated Earth, / To Weeds of Vice, and Folly, give a Birth; / Silver, and Gold, for Want of proper Use, / Their Splendor lose, and cancrous Rust produce; / Streams owe their Purity, to active Speed, / If Waters stagnate, they Corruption breed."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1759
"Who was the first that forg'd the deadly Blade? / Of rugged Steel his savage Soul was made."
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1759
"Our suffering souls like gold refine, / And whiten us in blood Divine."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1760
"Whene'er he visits us with Racks of Pain, / And speeds the rapid Fever in each Vein, / Our drossy Souls the potent Fire refines,/ Till the bright Ore in polish'd Beauty shines"
preview | full record— Langhorne,William (1721-1772)
Date: 1760
"O happy stroke, that bursts the bonds of clay, / Darts through the rending gloom the blaze of day, / And wings the soul with boundless flight to soar, / Where dangers threat, and fears alarm no more."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1761
"Ye Pow'rs above my Breast with courage steel, / That when the Hour arrives, I may not feel / A Mother's weakness melting this sad Heart"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1761, 1790
"Such then is God, a spirit pure refin'd / From all material dross, and such the human mind."
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787); Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1706-1760)
Date: 1762
"never joy, / Save th' anxious sordid one to view his gold, / Could touch his marble heart"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1762
"But as the fire / Refines the silver; so a taste of woe / Awakes the Soul."
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)