Date: 1739
"In reason's light, eternal word, exprest, / Stamp'd with his image in the creature's breast"
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1739
"O name divine! / Be thou engraven on my inmost soul"
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1739
"My great Redeemer's name--transporting name! / 'Tis graven on my heart"
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1739
"My great Redeemer's name--transporting name! / 'Tis graven on my heart, 'tis deep imprest, / Immortal is the stamp; nor life, nor death, / Nor hell, with all its pow'rs, shall blot it thence."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1738, 1739
"The Mind, a Blank, when Life begins to flow, / But without Knowledge capable to know, / The God of Nature to our Care commits; / As to the Press we send th' unsully'd Sheets."
preview | full record— Bancks, John (1709-1751)
Date: 1738, 1739
"And as with Milton's Numbers, or with mine, / Those Sheets come forth, as Corbet may enjoin; / So Education on the Mind imprints / Sublime Ideas, or low trivial Hints."
preview | full record— Bancks, John (1709-1751)
Date: 1739
"True Witness of my Sonship Thou, / Engraving Pardon on my Heart: / Seal of my Sins in CHRIST forgiven, / Earnest of Love, and Pledge of Heav'n."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1739
"Father, all thy Commands to do: / Ah deep engrave it on my Breast, / That I in Thee ev'n now am blest."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: w. 1740-50
"Poor Cornet is a quiet creature: / One reads his mind in every feature."
preview | full record— Amherst [later Thomas], Elizabeth Frances (c.1716-1779)
Date: 1741
"Early instruct your tender Youth / In Heav'n's unerring Law of Truth, / Engrave it on their Mind."
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)