Date: 1739
"But come ye purer souls from dross refin'd, / The blameless heart and uncorrupted mind!"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1739
"Ye hallowed Men! / In whom Vice sanctifies, whose Precepts teach / Zeal without Truth, Religion without Virtue, / Who ne'er preach Heav'n but with a downward Eye / That turns your Souls to Dross; who shouting loose / The Dogs of Hell upon us."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1742
As an artist pours and extracts gold from a mold, "So virtuous Education forms the Mind, / And leaves for Life the beauteous Stamp behind!"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1749
"Not all the Gems, which Indian Mines prepare, / Can with that Ruby in thy Soul compare: / Its bright'ning Blaze like Aaron's Breast shall shine, / Alike refulgent, and alike divine"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1750, 1752
"Whether the Mind, like Soil, doth not by Disuse grow stiff; and whether Reasoning and Study be not like stirring and dividing the Glebe?"
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1753
Inspiration "lifts the Heart on Raptures all refin'd, / And leaves its mortal Dross far, far behind"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1754
"And friendship with the bless'd, new fervour gains, / Exalted fervour, free from earth's cold dross, / And each alloy, that sensual hearts engross;"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1755
Samuel Johnson has a "well-turn'd mind" and a "genius pure, as gold refin'd"
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: 1756, 1766
"And as to gold's being so yielding and ductile by human art, it is to be observed, that in return it exerts a greater power on the human mind. "
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1759
"Bid them ne'er remit / Their high heroic ardor;--let them know, / Whate'er shall fall on this old mould'ring clay, / The tyrant never shall subdue my mind."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)