Date: 1722
"No Man can boast a God-like Mind, / From that Infernal Dross refin'd; / By Nature all are Base"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1723, 1740
"Those slighted Favours which cold Nymphs dispense, / Mere common Counters of the Sense, / Defective both in Mettle and in Measure, / A Lover's Fancy coins into a Treasure."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: 1723, 1740
"And if their Heads but any Substance hold, / Love ripens all that Dross into the purest Gold."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: 1735, 1745
"Only to trifle sev'nty Years away / In this frail Flesh, this Tenement of Clay, / In Doubt, in Fear, in Sorrow, in Despair, / Then cease to be, and vanish into Air?"
preview | full record— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)
Date: 1739
"More hard than Marble is my Heart, / And foul with Sins of deepest Stain: / But Thou the mighty Saviour art, / Nor flow'd thy cleansing Blood in vain. / Ah! soften, melt this Rock, and may / Thy Blood wash all these Stains away."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1739
"My GOD, what is a Human Heart? / Silver or Gold, or precious Stone; / Or Star, or Rainbow; or a Part / Of All, or all thy World in One?"
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Date: 1739
"To usher forth the Virtues of the Mind! / From Nature's Chain, from Earthly Dross set free, / One only Appetite remained in Thee."
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Date: 1742
"What means this struggling in my breast, / If Thine is steel'd against my prayer?"
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Date: 1742
"My soul is dead, my heart is stone, / A cage of birds and beasts unclean, / A den of thieves, a dire abode / Of dragons, but no house of God."
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Date: 1743
"In the earthy furnace tried, / In the soul of fallen man, / Lo! as silver purified / All His promises remain."
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