Date: 1702
'Tis Lust, (not Love) and Reason, that are Foes
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1702
"But there is one soft Minute, when the Mind / Is left unguarded," during which "the wise Lover understanding right, /Steals in like Day upon the Wings of Light."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1714, 1735
" What cruel Dæmon haunts my tortur'd Mind? / Sure, if 'twere Love, I shou'd th'Invader find;"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1743
"My soul is more than conqueror, / And strong in strength invincible."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1747
"Love only could conquer so stubborn an heart"
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Date: 1747
Jesus can vindicate his "right Divine" and "Conquer this rebellious heart"
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Date: 1755
"Like Death impartial, [Love] presents his Dart, / And sure to conquer, aims at ev'ry Heart"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1766
"Love laugh'd, and, sure of conquest, wing'd a dart / Unerring, to her undefended heart."
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Date: 1777
"Not all her arts my steady soul shall move, / And she shall find that Reason conquers Love"
preview | full record— Lyttelton, George, first Baron Lyttelton (1709-1773)