Date: 1739
"The darkling soul scarce feels a glimm'ring ray, /Shrouded in sense from her immortal day"
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1739
"Passions enslave, and servile cares oppress"
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1739
"Fraud, rapine, murder, guilt's long horrid train, / Distracted nature's anarchy maintain."
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1739
"But as the moon reflecting borrow'd day, /Sheds on our shadow'd world a feeble ray: /Some scatter'd beams of Reason law contains, /While Order's rule must be enforc'd by pains"
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1739
"Faint is the lesson reason's rules impart: / [Drama] pours it strong and instant through the heart"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
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
"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: 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)