Date: 1719
"So perfect Gold no more excells the Brass, / Than Love of Soul doth Love of Body pass."
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: June, 1720
"Daring and unco' stout he was, / With Heart hool'd in three Sloughs of Brass, Wha ventur'd first upon the Sea / With Hempen Branks, and Horse of Tree"
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1721
"For who can hear the Lad complain, / And not participate and feel / His artless undissembled Pain, / Unless he has a Heart of Steel."
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1721
"Their Hearts made of Stone, or of Steel are, / That are not Adorers of KATE."
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1722
"nor is my heart nae mair than yours of steel"
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1722
"Yea Virtue was thy chief and great Concern. / A bounteous Hand, a Heart as true as Steel, / A steady Mind, most courteous and gentile"
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield (c. 1665-1751)
Date: 1722
"A Savage Fury brandishes each Dart, / And reeking Slaughter steels each impious Heart."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield (c. 1665-1751)
Date: 1724
"Without such a Miracle, since the Soul and Body act mutually upon one another, and the Tabernacle of Clay is the weakest part of the Compound, it must at last be overborn and thrown down."
preview | full record— Cheyne, George (1671-1743)
Date: 1724
"As a Stone in a Wall, fastened with Mortar, compressed by surrounding Stones, and involved in a Million of other Attractions, cannot fall to the Earth, nor sensibly exert its natural Gravity, no, not so much as to discover there is such a Principle in it; just so, the intelligent Soul, in this h...
preview | full record— Cheyne, George (1671-1743)
Date: January 1739
"I know that the fear of the civil magistrate is as strong a restraint as any of iron, and that I am in as perfect safety as if he were chain'd or imprison'd."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)