Date: 1757
"Not sure where found the noble mind: / From vulgar dross and dregs refin'd: / High polish'd--and obdure!"
preview | full record— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)
Date: 1757-9
"His Colour chang'd, and hung his Head, / As if some Thief had lately stole / His Gold; his other better Soul--"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]
Date: 1757-9
"Impenetrable Courage steels his manly Breast."
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]
Date: 1757, 1769
"As thus to touch his iron heart they try'd, / The Cyclops smiling, scornful thus reply'd:"
preview | full record— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)
Date: w. 1757, 1758
"What Briton wears a heart, steel'd to the touch / Of gentle Pity? "
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1759
A "steely Heart can brave the boist'rous Seas"
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1759
"For well I know, nor Flint, nor ruthless Steel, / Can arm the Breast of such a gentle Maid."
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1759
"If you, these moral Truths, would comprehend, / To moral Writers, your Attention lend; / By reading them, you'll Wisdom's Honey gain, / And with her golden Stores, inrich your Brain."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1759
"Minds slothful, like uncultivated Earth, / To Weeds of Vice, and Folly, give a Birth; / Silver, and Gold, for Want of proper Use, / Their Splendor lose, and cancrous Rust produce; / Streams owe their Purity, to active Speed, / If Waters stagnate, they Corruption breed."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)