Date: 1758
Truth is the "Great queen of harmony ... whose moral scepter rules the hearts of kings"
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Date: 1758
"Deep in their soules ye fair impression lay, / Deep-tracd & never to be worn away."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1758
"If at the type our dreaming soules awake, / & Hannahs strains their Just impression make"
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1759
A Logician is "one, that has been broke / To Ride and Pace his Reason by the Booke, And by their Rules, and Precepts, and Examples, / To put his wits into a kind of Trammells."
preview | full record— Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)
Date: 1759
Woes may haunt the mind (but the Gods may give "cruel Phantoms to the Wind"
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1759, performed 1776
"(If shapes like his be but the fancy's coinage)"
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Date: 1759, performed 1776
"Steel then, ye Powers of heav'n, / Steel my firm soul with your own fortitude, / Free from alloy of passion."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1759
A "steely Heart can brave the boist'rous Seas"
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Date: 1759
"For well I know, nor Flint, nor ruthless Steel, / Can arm the Breast of such a gentle Maid."
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1759, performed 1776
The soul may be "Snatch'd by the power of music from her cell / Of fleshly thraldom" and feel "herself upborn / On plumes of ecstasy"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)