Date: 1718
"A thousand little Nerves She sends / Quite to our Toes, and Fingers Ends; / And These in Gratitude again / Return their Spirits to the Brain; / In which their Figure being printed / (As just before, I think, I hinted) / Alma inform'd can try the Case, / As She had seen upon the Place. // Thus, w...
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1719
"Than from this Mind, O! venerable Shade, / Th'Impression be eras'd thy Words have made."
preview | full record— Breval, John Durant (1680/81-1738)
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: 1725-6
"O Prince attend! some sav'ring pow'r be kind,
And print th'important story on thy mind!"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1725-6
"Then hear my words, and grave them in thy mind!"
preview | full record— 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...
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1726, 1753
"Restless, on paper, we our vows repeat, / And pour our souls out, on the missive sheet"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1728
"Your Present's most gentile and kind, / Baith rich and shining as your Mind"
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)