Date: 1708
"For Folly has over-whelmed them, and, what they have sought after, has covered their Hearts like Rust; God has sealed up their Hearts and their Ears, and their Eyes are dim, and they shall have sore Punishment."
preview | full record— Ockley, Simon (bap. 1679, d. 1720)
Date: 1709
"Nor can you unconcern'd thro' Ludgate pass / Without a Conscience steel'd, or Heart of Brass; / Where, thro' the Iron Grate, a Rueful Tongue / Directs you to the Box below 'em hung, / To angle Farthings from the num'rous Throng"
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1709
"When Gene'rous Duckett fell in all his Prime, / That Iron Heart which ne'er before did bend / Broke into Tears, and melted for a Friend."
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1709
"Purg'd from the Dross of a Terrestrial Mind, / The Blest are all Propitious to Mankind:"
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"[N]o alloy / Of Flesh" can destroy the "sprightly Beauties" of the soul "Nor Death nor Fate can snatch the lasting Joy. / Through ev'ry Limb the active Spirit flows;
Diffusing Life and Vigour as it goes, / But is it self unmixt, and free from Dross"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"Black Night comes on, and interrupts the Day, / E'er it can chase the Mists and Fogs away; / The Dregs of Flesh and Drossy Lees, o'errun / The Soul, and weigh the strugling Spirit down:"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710
"In that Particular I was sure my fair Agnes was exceeded by none; her Charms were faultless and peculiar, but her Mind was a Rock upon which my Resolution struck."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: Monday, March 3, 1712
"A Vice of a more lively Nature were a more desirable Tyrant than this Rust of the Mind, which gives a Tincture of its Nature to every Action of ones Life."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)