Date: w. 1740-50
"Poor Cornet is a quiet creature: / One reads his mind in every feature."
preview | full record— Amherst [later Thomas], Elizabeth Frances (c.1716-1779)
Date: 1740
"How bruised and scarified! how deep the wound! / Senseless, of life no symptom to be found!"
preview | full record— Dixon, Sarah (1671/2-1765)
Date: 1740
"Thus lawless conquerors our town restore, / With the sad marks of their inhuman power; / No art, nor time, such ravage can repair; / No superstructure can these ruins bear."
preview | full record— Dixon, Sarah (1671/2-1765)
Date: 1740
"The quiet of Our mind destroys, / Or with a full spring-tide of joys, / Or a dead-ebb of grief. "
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1740
"In vain we forge coercive Chains, to bind / The strongest, noblest Passion of the Mind."
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1740
"In vain with formal Laws we fence it round; Love, swift as Thought, impatient, leaps the Bound,"
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1740
"Love, Thy image love, impart, / Stamp it on our face and heart"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1740
"Be I, O Thou my better part, / A seal impress'd upon Thy heart:"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1740
"To pleasures vain he steel'd his heart; / No room for them when God is there"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: w. 1741
"While breath shall animate this frail machine, / My heart sincere, which never flatt'ry knew, / Shall consecrate its warmest wish to you."
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)