Date: w. December 1742, 1760
"Honour erected in thy breast its throne, / And kind Humanity was all thy own."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: w. 1739, 1742
"Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind."
preview | full record— Collins, William (1721-1759)
Date: 1742
As an artist pours and extracts gold from a mold, "So virtuous Education forms the Mind, / And leaves for Life the beauteous Stamp behind!"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1742
"Where heav'nly Reason with her temperate Light, / Teaches th'unbiass'd Mind to judge aright / There Property secure enjoys her own; / There Conscience sits untroubl'd on her Throne"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1742
"My soul is all a troubled sea, / I cannot find my rest in Thee."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1742
"What means this struggling in my breast, / If Thine is steel'd against my prayer?"
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Date: 1742
"My Ethiop soul shall change her skin; / Redeem'd from all iniquity."
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Date: 1742
"Surely He shall the mourner cheer, / And make the broken heart His throne; / Shall break it first, and then bind up."
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Date: 1742
God may "conquer my rebellious will, / And bid my murmuring heart 'Be Still.'"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1742
"My soul is dead, my heart is stone, / A cage of birds and beasts unclean, / A den of thieves, a dire abode / Of dragons, but no house of God."
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