Date: 1715-1720
"The Monarch spoke: the Words with Warmth addrest / To rigid Justice steel'd his Brother's Breast."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1718 [first published 1684-1694]
"And not our Houses alone, when (as SOPHOCLES has it) they stand long untenanted, run the faster to ruine, but Mens natural parts lying unemployed for lack of Acquaintance with the World, contract a kind of filth or rust and craziness thereby."
preview | full record— Plutarch (c. 46-120)
Date: 1719
"He forms our generals for the field, / With all their dreadful skill; / Gives them his awful sword to wield, / And makes their hearts of steel."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1719
"Hard was his Heart, inclos'd in Folds of Brass, / Who in a feeble Bark first boldly try'd / The Watry Path and Region of the Seas, /And adverse Winds and swelling Waves defy'd"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1721, 1722
"But a voice from heaven was heard, which determined all disputes; he shall not be removed out of the hands of mortals, because happy are the breasts that shall give him suck, the hands that shall hold him, and the bed on which he shall rest! after so many striking evidences, my dear Joshua, the ...
preview | full record— Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Date: 1721, 1722
"I have the feelings of humanity for the unhappy, as if none but they were men: and even the great, towards whom I find my heart as stone whilst they are in prosperity, I love them when they are fallen."
preview | full record— Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
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: 1725-6
"Each gentle mind the soft infection felt, for richest metals are most apt to melt"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1725-6
"Each warlike Greek the moving music hears, / And iron-hearted Heroes melt in tears"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1725-6
"Heav'n has not curst me with a heart of steel, / But giv'n the sense, to pity, and to feel."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.