Date: 1712
"With all thy Whigish-bombast, stuff't with Lies, / Thy Shams, thy Gasconades and Forgeries; / Which to promote, thou hast thy Genius bent, / Set on by Hell, of which thy Brain's the Mint"
preview | full record— Forbes of Disblair (fl. 1765-1771)
Date: 1713
Wine may "into Riches" stamp and coin the Heart
preview | full record— Smith, John (fl. 1713)
Date: 1718
"Set forth your Edict, let it be enjoyn'd, / That all defective Species be recoyn'd: / R---r and E---r---t are Judges fit / To oversee the Stamping of our Wit."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1720, 1735
A banker's soul may be "Weigh'd in the Ballance, and found Light."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
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: 1724
"While in the Mint of her projecting Mind, Against the Mice, deep Stratagems are coin'd"
preview | full record— Needler, Henry (1690-1718); Duncombe, William (1690-1769)
Date: 1724
"Thy fears are the wild coinage of thy fancy."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1729
"To Coin, like Man, a little Ape, / 'Gainst Heaven is High-Treason"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1738, 1739
"Then 'tis not all--with Notions to be fraught, / By Fancy coin'd, or by the Senses caught."
preview | full record— Bancks, John (1709-1751)
Date: 1738, 1739
"Like Twigs, entrusted to the Planter's Pains, / Who prunes, engrafts, indulges, or restrains, / Till in the Garden Ornament they yield, / And Fruit, which else had cumber'd up the Field: / Or that rich Ore we from the Indies bring, / Which bears, refin'd, the Image of the King; / But mix'd for-e...
preview | full record— Bancks, John (1709-1751)