Date: 1721
" Oh! seal me, stamp me on thy tender Mind, / And leave the strong Impression deep behind."
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Nestor Ironside
Date: 1721
" And see how Nature, bountiful and kind, / Stamps the Paternal Image on his Mind"
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1721
"For who can hear the Lad complain, / And not participate and feel / His artless undissembled Pain, / Unless he has a Heart of Steel."
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1721
"Their Hearts made of Stone, or of Steel are, / That are not Adorers of KATE."
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: w. 1721
"As running Streams their parted Waters spread / Adown the hill or thrô the flow'ry Mead* / Here rising bold and Turbulent in waves* / There sunk in Sand or sunk in Rocky Caves* / The human Eye may still collect and bring* / To their first Murmur and Original spring:* / So from the various...
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1722
"An empire, which thy [Jesus'] armies did not gain, / Not purchas'd by the blood of thousands slain, / But by thy own; an empire o'er the mind / Erected, and for heavenly ends design'd."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1722
"[E]rring conscience must as well controll /Our acts, as when it moves and guides the soul"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1722
"He, who the revelation owns, yet brings / The sacred truths and high mysterious things / Of Christian faith, which heav'nly light reveals, / To reason's bar, to a wrong court appeals."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1722
"For reason, reason's self being judge, by laws, / That rule her province, can't decide the cause."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1722
"The sole business of reason in this case is to examine and judge of the evidence that is brought to prove that any proposition about the nature of God is clearly revealed by himself."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)