Date: 1747
"Tho' her bright Image, in his Breast he bears, / And all her Beauties in his Form appears; / Tho' in his Soul she lights her heav'nly Flame, / And finds even here a Votary in him."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1748
Thought is "The lover's heaven, or his hell."
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: 1748
"His soul was fair, / Bright as the children of yon azure sheen!"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1748
"O who can speak the vigorous joys of health! / Unclogg'd the body, unobscured the mind."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1748
"Let godlike reason, from her sovereign throne, / Speak the commanding word 'I will!' and it is done."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1733, 1748
"Where thou [Memory] art not, the cheerless human mind / Is one vast void, all darksome, sad, and blind; / No trace of anything remains behind."
preview | full record— Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)
Date: 1749
Sin may mock "the' eraser's art" so that marks remain on the soul as a foul stain
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1749
"In my heart Thy name reveal, / Stamp me with Thy Spirit's seal"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1749
"Wilt Thou not calm my troubled breast, [...] And stamp forgiveness on my heart?"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1749
"Force my conscience to receive it, / Pardon stamp'd upon my heart"
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