Date: 1765, 1770
"Wonder they cannot blush, they do not feel, / They must be harden'd like an heart of steel."
preview | full record— Thompson, Edward (1738-1786)
Date: 1765
"For (strange) his soul's materializ'd to gold..... Thus we the stale philosophy renew, / That souls are mortal, and material too"
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)
Date: 1765
"Yet, though the hardy, unreflecting heart / Glows in the chace, as flints are fir'd by steel ... That breast's not human which can never feel."
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)
Date: 1765
"Where is the heart, to grateful feelings sear'd, / The breast, against each soft sensation steel'd, / Hard as the tyger's, in wild deserts rear'd"
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)
Date: 1766
"Altho' your brains are Lead, / These Quills, my Lads, will get you Bread"
preview | full record— Lloyd, Evan (1734-1776)
Date: 1766
"These are the marks which heav'n itself design'd, / The sterling standards of the human mind"
preview | full record— Jemmat [née Yeo], Catherine (bap. 1714, d. 1766?)
Date: 1766
"I boast not iron ribs, nor heart of steel, / Raw is my flesh, and warm my blood to feel"
preview | full record— Lloyd, Evan (1734-1776)
Date: 1766, 1806
"Let this pervade at length thy heart of steel; / Yet, yet return, nor blush, Oh man! to feel."
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1766
"And, with ten thousand fervent pray'rs, have strove / Thy iron heart, O ruthless death! to move."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1766
"Gen'rous bosoms, more than gems of gold, / Rich funds of morals, knowledge, sense, unfold; / Transmitting each, to each, the rising store, / For wisdom's plants, while cropping, flourish more, A magic circle! whose enchanted round, / Admits no fiend to tread the hallow'd ground."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)