Date: 1739
A mind may be a mind so "famish'd for Drollery, that can taste the silly things this Play is season'd with"
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)
Date: 1739
"Fly from my soul all images of sense"
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1739
"O name divine! / Be thou engraven on my inmost soul"
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
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."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1739
"My great Redeemer's name--transporting name! / 'Tis graven on my heart"
preview | full record— 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."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1739
"Thy hand can trace the characters divine, / And stamp celestial beauty on my soul"
preview | full record— 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!"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1739
"O set me as a signal on thy heart! / And let the deep impression ne'er depart."
preview | full record— 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!"
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)