Date: 1737
"The Man a nobler Empire gains, / That his own craving Will restrains, / Than he whose Sword and wide Command / Join distant Spain and Lybia's Land."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
"Alas! by diff'rent Passions I'm oppress'd! / Fierce Love and Hate contend within my Breast."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
"As in the greater World, aspiring Flame, / Earth, Water, Air, make the material Frame: / And thro' the Members a commanding Soul / Infus'd, directs the Motion of the Whole: / So 'tis in Man, the lesser World: the Case / Is Clay, unactive, and an earthly Mass: / But the Blood's Streams the ruli...
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
"Such were the high Endowments of her Mind, / (To Reason's Rule, her Passions still resign'd)."
preview | full record— Hughes, Jabez (1685-1731)
Date: 1737
"Her lovely image, on his mind impress'd, / Had fix'd her empire in his yielding breast."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1737
"With Terrors round can Reason hold her throne / Despise the known, nor tremble at th'unknown?"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1738, 1868
"Justice and grace support Thy throne, / Set up in every faithful soul"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1738, 1868
"Pure and holy hearts alone / Chooses [God] for His quiet throne."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1738, 1792
"But soon a beam, emissive from above, / Shed mental day, and touch'd the heart with love; / Gave jealous rage to know Divine Controul, / And ruled the tempest rising in the soul."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: January 1739
"Reason first appears in possession of the throne, prescribing laws, and imposing maxims, with an absolute sway and authority."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)