Date: 1777
"Courage, the warrior's bosom steel'd."
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: August 4, 1778
"Behold! the soul shall waft away, / Whene'er we come to die, / And leave its cottage made of clay, / In twinkling of an eye."
preview | full record— Hammon, Jupiter (1711-c.1800)
Date: January 1, 1779
"There [to Heaven's Regions] when the soul, in search of purer day, / Loos'd from mortality's impris'ning clay / Shall swifter than the forked lightning dart."
preview | full record— Anstey, Christopher (1724-1805)
Date: June 5, 1780
"Some, though they wish it, are not steel'd enough, / Nor is each would-be villain conscience-proof."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1780
Locke expelled innate ideas by asserting that "disquisition and proof were the test of truth; and that whatever would not stand their touch, must be considered as base metal."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1780
"I call not you!--for, oh, your callous bosoms / Fell Dissipation steels, and robs your minds / Of the sweet energies bestow'd by Heaven."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1780
"Forgive the frenzy of a heart unsteel'd / By disappointment's shocks."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1772-1781, 1781
"But, if thy faint springs / Refuse this large supply, steel thy firm soul / With stoic pride"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1781
"'Gainst fear and pity now thy bosom steel, / For sights more horrible I now reveal!"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1781, 1791
An "scholar, but unwise" "cannot separate the dross / From the pure ore"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)