Date: 1708

"'The Characters that Nature has impress'd, / 'Keep their primæval Stamp on ev'ry Breast"

— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730); Aesop

Date: 1708

"'And he that wou'd, what's printed there, erase, / 'As well might hope to blanch a Negro's Face."

— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730); Aesop

Date: 1715, 1762

"In Good Mens Minds and Hearts alone doth he, / Delight to Dwell, and there Engraven be."

— Pennecuik, Alexander (d. 1730)

Date: 1725-6

"O Prince attend! some sav'ring pow'r be kind,
And print th'important story on thy mind!"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

Date: 1725-6

"Then hear my words, and grave them in thy mind!"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

Date: 1725-6

"He saw that all the sparks of virtue and humanity were not extinguished in Amphinomus; he therefore warns him with great solemnity to forsake the Suitors; he imprints conviction upon his mind, tho' ineffectually, and shews by it that when he falls by the hand of Ulysses in the succ...

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

Date: 1733

"My head and heart thus flowing thro' my quill, / Verse-man or Prose-man, term me which you will."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1737

"'Cou'd your Eyes penetrate my naked Breast, / 'There you might read these Characters engrav'd, / 'That, by your Virtues I am bound! inslav'd!"

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

Date: 1739

"Father, all thy Commands to do: / Ah deep engrave it on my Breast, / That I in Thee ev'n now am blest."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1746, 1749

"Such Rancour this, of such a poisonous Vein, / As never, never, shall my Paper stain: / Much less infect my Heart"

— Francis, Philip (1708-1773)