Date: 1715, 1762
"In Good Mens Minds and Hearts alone doth he, / Delight to Dwell, and there Engraven be."
preview | full record— Pennecuik, Alexander (d. 1730)
Date: 1721
"To this, and all the Ages that succeeds: / His Actions are engrav'd in ev'ry Breast."
preview | full record— Pennecuik, Alexander (d. 1730)
Date: 1722
"Yon Knight said he, in War is so expert, / And has it so engraven on his Heart, / That he unto a very Point does know, / Each Stratagem, and nice Punctilio."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield (c. 1665-1751)
Date: 1722
" The Print of Love new-stamp'd his ductile Breast, / And with soft Characters his Soul Imprest"
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield (c. 1665-1751)
Date: 1728
"Your Present's most gentile and kind, / Baith rich and shining as your Mind"
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1729
"Oh, let not the soft, penetrating plague / Creep on the freeborn mind! and working there, / With the sharp tooth of many a new-form'd want, / Endless, and idle all, eat out the heart / Of liberty; the high conception blast; / The noble sentiment, the impatient scorn / Of base subjection, and the...
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1732
"Each Line's a Transcript of his Mind!"
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1754, 1793
"All-perfect Wisdom, on each living soul, / Engrav'd this mandate, 'to preserve their frame, And hold entire the gen'ral orb of being.'"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1771, 1776
"'Could History man's secret heart reveal, / 'And what imports a heaven-born mind to learn, / 'Her transcripts to explore what bosom would not yearn!"
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1789
"[T]he important overthrow of the common enemy of our religious liberty ... must be engraven on our hearts in the very deepest characters of gratitude and praise"
preview | full record— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)