Date: 1722
"No Man can boast a God-like Mind, / From that Infernal Dross refin'd; / By Nature all are Base"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1723
"If offer'd in a mild and tim'rous Tone, / Nor urg'd and press'd, its [Counsel's] feeble Force is gone, / And leaves no more Impressions on the Mind, / Than Rocks receive from a soft Breeze of Wind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1723, 1740
"Those slighted Favours which cold Nymphs dispense, / Mere common Counters of the Sense, / Defective both in Mettle and in Measure, / A Lover's Fancy coins into a Treasure."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: 1723, 1740
"And if their Heads but any Substance hold, / Love ripens all that Dross into the purest Gold."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: 1724, 1787
"Sure thou wilt weep, and tender sorrows feel; / Nor flint thy heart, nor is thy breast of steel."
preview | full record— Welsted, Leonard (1688-1747)
Date: 1724
"This cold clay cottage is but the soul's prison, / And death, at worst, is but a surly friend, / Who conquers to give liberty."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1724, 1755
Rust may "fair endowments hide"
preview | full record— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)
Date: 1724, 1755
Wit may be refined by reason to disengage metal from the mine [of the mind]
preview | full record— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)
Date: 1727
"Death from this coarse Alloy refines the Mind."
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1727
"Ned cou'd not well digest this Change, / Forc'd in the World at large to range; / With Babel's Monarch turn'd to grass, / Wou'd it not break an Heart of Brass?"
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)