Date: 1723
"Then Clifford, were thy Heart as hard as Steel, / As thou hast shown it flinty by thy Deeds, / I come to pierce it, or to give thee mine."
preview | full record— Cibber, Theophilus (1703-1758)
Date: 1723
"Look on the Boy, / And let his manly Face, which promiseth / Successful Fortune, steel thy melting Heart / To hold thy own, and leave thine own with him."
preview | full record— Cibber, Theophilus (1703-1758)
Date: 1724
"This cold clay cottage is but the soul's prison, / And death, at worst, is but a surly friend, / Who conquers to give liberty."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1730
Love is a "strange unruly Something in the Soul" that "like a Fire once kindled in a Mine, / Can ne'er be thoroughly quench'd"
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1730
The "Charms of Modesty" may "kindle Virtues in the roughest Breast" "like the Sun-beams ripening Gems in Rocks"
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1732
"If there be a Passion pure without Allay, as tender and soft, as violent and strong, you cannot sure miscall it by that Name."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1739
"May all English Lads, like you, Boys, / Prove on Shore true Hearts of Gold; / To their King and Country true"
preview | full record— Phillips, Edward (b. 1708/9)
Date: 1753
"But their Hearts were steel'd by Custom."
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1753
"Tis well you have a Heart of Stone, the Tale wou'd melt it else."
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1755
"Had not Guilt steel'd thy Heart, awakening Conscience / Wou'd flash Conviction on thee, and each Look, / Shot from these Eyes, be arm'd with Serpent-Horrors, / To turn thee into Stone!"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)