Date: w. 1787, 1797
"They only who are curst with breasts of steel / Can mock the foibles of surviving love"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: w. 1794, 1797
"'Tis only those of purer clay / 'From sensual dross refined, / 'In whom the passions pleas'd obey / 'The God within the mind, / 'Who share my delegated aid, / 'Through Wisdom's golden mean convey'd / 'From the first source of sov'reign good."
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Date: w. 1779, published 1800
"His iron-heart with Scripture he assail'd, / Woo'd him to hear a sermon, and prevail'd."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: w. 1779, published 1800
"Now strike me to the ground, on which I kneel, / Ere yet this heart relapses into steel;"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1801
"Some fickle creatures boast a soul / True as the needle to the pole; / Yet shifting, like the weather, / The needle's constancy forego / For any novelty, and show / Its variations rather."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1806
"Tho' party-zeal inflam'd his iron heart, / And prejudice sharp pointed ev'ry dart; / With glowing thoughts, his mind profusely teem'd."
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)