Date: 1779
Jesus may "inhabitest the humble mind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1779
"Hope delayed fatigues the mind, / And drinks the spirits up"
preview | full record— Newton, John (1725-1807)
Date: 1779
"Sorrow may well possess the mind / That feeds where thorns and thistles grow"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: November 9, 1779
"Thus, conscience freed from ev'ry clog, / Mahometans eat up the hog."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1779, 1794
"For still its own severest judge, / The generous mind appears; / And when it errs, against itself / A dread tribunal rears."
preview | full record— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)
Date: 1779, 1794
"Upon the back of each bright heart / These words engraven were [literally], / In mystic characters; fond Love / And joy have fix'd me here."
preview | full record— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)
Date: 1779
"Whate'er this voice by sceptics may be found, / Faction's false cry, or Truth's prophetic sound, / Let ev'ry Briton, with bold Blake, proclaim, / His ruling passion is his Country's fame!."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1779
One may be 'Untaught "to bear the wrongs of base mankind, / The last, and hardest conquest of the mind!"'
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: w. c. 1779
"[T]hen prudence took her Seat / Within the Soul, and reign'd in Virtue's room."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)