Date: 1767

"Seamen have hearts of gold, sir, / Peace or in war, alike we show / Englishmen stout and bold, sir."

— Stevens, George Alexander (1710?-1784)

Date: 1767

"We were free, we're bold, we're true hearts of gold"

— Stevens, George Alexander (1710?-1784)

Date: 1767

"Love has made me stout and strong; /Has given me a charm, / Will not suffer me to fall; / Has steel'd my heart, and nerv'd my arm, / To guard my precious all."

— Garrick, David (1717-1779)

Date: 1767

"[I]ndeed, in her more serious moments, which are but few, she, perhaps, gives me an hearing, when all at once a crowd of gayer thoughts rush on, and kill at once the hopes wherewith I was elated a few minutes before"

— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)

Date: 1767

"Be rul'd by reason for your beauty's sake."

— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)

Date: 1767

"Beauty, ye fair, may forge the lover's chain; / But the mind's charms your empire must maintain."

— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)

Date: 1768

"Hope and fear alternate rising, / Strive for empire o'er my heart."

— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)

Date: 1769

A debt of gratitude to parents is "stamp'd upon our frames; In polish'd minds it shines the most"

— Reed, Joseph (1723-1787)

Date: 1769

"Your beauteous looks inspire my mind / With passion of the purest kind: / No selfish views my bosom sway, / But all is love without allay."

— Reed, Joseph (1723-1787)

Date: 1769

"But, first, I'll tell thee thy detested deeds, / And gall, if possible, thine iron heart."

— Home, John (1722-1808)