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Date: 1709
"With Eyes that Languish and with Conquer'd Hearts / We own your Pow'r, your Raptures, Flames and Darts: / Charm more than You."
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"The Mind no nobler Wisdom can attain, / Than to inspect and study all the Man: / His awful Looks confess the Race Divine; / In him the Beauties of the Godhead shine: / With Majesty he fills great Reason's Throne, / The Subject World their rightful Monarch own."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"His [Man's] ranging Soul in narrow Bounds contains / All Nature's Works, o'er which in Peace he reigns."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"Just so the Head of Man contains within / The Intellect, with Rays and Light Divine."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"The Senses stand around; the Spirits roam / To seize and bring the fleeting Objects home: / Thro' every Nerve and every Pore they pass."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"The Heart, the Center of the manly Breast, / Just like the Sun, in lovely Purple drest, / Diffuses all the Liquid Crimson round, / Whence Life, and Vigour, Heat and Strength abound."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"And as great Phoebus sometimes rages high, / And scorches with his Beams the sultry Sky: / So when the Heart with Rage, or flaming Ire, / Grows warm, or burns with Love's consuming Fire: / The catching Virals spread the Flames afar."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"As solid Shores contain the liquid Seas, / Just so the Stomach, a soft watry Mass, / Stagnates beneath and fills the lower Space: / Here, Winds, and Rains, and humid Vapours lie, / And these exhal'd with Heat, all upwards fly: / As mantling Clouds conceal the fickly Sun, / Dissolve in Dew and dr...
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"Religion, free from Pomp, yet still Divine, / All Hearts and Eyes she conquers with her Charms, And with her Love the willing People warms."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710
A people may be "tempted by a Thousand Arts, / To stamp Mod'ration in their Hearts"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
