Date: January 1739

"Let us chace our imagination to the heavens, or to the utmost limits of the universe; we never really advance a step beyond ourselves, nor can conceive any kind of existence, but those perceptions which have appeared in that narrow compass."

— Hume, David (1711-1776)

Date: 1739

"My great Redeemer's name--transporting name! / 'Tis graven on my heart"

— 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."

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1739

"Thy hand can trace the characters divine, / And stamp celestial beauty on my soul"

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1739

Dictates have "his care on ev'ry mind impress'd, / The conscious seals the hand of Heav'n attest!"

— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)

Date: 1739

"O set me as a signal on thy heart! / And let the deep impression ne'er depart."

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1739

"To thee; whatever kind impression's rais'd / In any heart for me, let it be thine!"

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1739

"And may the soft impression ne'er be lost! / O set me as a signet on thy heart!"

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1739

"He finds thy soft impression touch his breast, / He feels the God, and owns him unconfess'd!"

— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)

Date: 1739

"My bosom all thy image shall retain, / The full impression there shall still remain."

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)