Date: 1739
"And as the Author very well says, whose Name I've forgot, Man is in this World like a Bird upon a Bough, the Bough is fix'd to the Tree, he who is fix'd to the Tree follows good Precepts, good Precepts are better than fine Words, fine Words are found at Court, at Court are Courtiers, Courtiers f...
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)
Date: 1739
"To him my heart shall gratefully ascribe / The crown of conquest, his unquestion'd right"
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
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)