Date: 1693
"Had the too tender Gods first made / Men's Hearts as hard as Steel, / Their Weakness ne're had been betraid / By ev'ry stroak they feel."
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Date: 1693
"Musick alone inflames my drooping Mind; / Nay, she would mount her Wings, and fly away, / Not be confin'd to this dull Lump of Clay, / Did not the Charms of Musick most divine / Unite, and things so wide, so close combine."
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Date: 1734, 1735
"Their dire Effects the Wretched feel: / Thy Waters turn the Heart to Steel."
preview | full record— Barber, Mary (c.1685-1755)
Date: 1749
"Not all the Gems, which Indian Mines prepare, / Can with that Ruby in thy Soul compare: / Its bright'ning Blaze like Aaron's Breast shall shine, / Alike refulgent, and alike divine"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)