Date: 1745
"Imagination is the Paphian shop, / Where feeble Happiness, like Vulcan, lame, / Bids foul Ideas, in their dark recess, / And hot as hell, (which kindled the black fires,) / With wanton art, those fatal arrows form / Which murder all thy time, health, wealth, and fame."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1745
"Wouldst thou receive them, other Thoughts there are, / On angel-wing, descending from above, / Which these, with art Divine, would counterwork, / And form celestial armour for thy peace."<
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1745
"Sense is our helmet, Wit is but the plume; / The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1746, 1793
"Then, then, exert thy utmost pow'r, / And teach me Being to endure; / Lest reason from the helm should start, / And lawless fury rule my heart; / Lest madness all my soul subdue, / To ask her Maker, What dost thou?"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1747
"Love only could conquer so stubborn an heart"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1747
Jesus can vindicate his "right Divine" and "Conquer this rebellious heart"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1751, 1791
"The passions are a num'rous crowd, / Imperious, positive, and loud: / Curb these licentious sons of strife; / Hence chiefly rise the storms of life: / If they grow mutinous, and rave, / They are thy masters, thou their slave."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1752, 1790
A mind may be " Void of all coquettish arts, / And vain designs of conquering hearts"
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)
Date: 1753
"Nature, that form'd you loveliest, doubly kind, / To like perfection, rais'd your conquering mind"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)