Date: 1733
"But if Calista's perfect Soul they knew, / They'd own their Error, and her Praise pursue. / Centred in her the brightest Graces meet, / Treasures of Knowledge and rich Mines of Wit
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1734, 1735
"The Mind, in peaceful Solitude, has Room / To range in Thought, and ramble far from home."
preview | full record— Barber, Mary (c.1685-1755)
Date: 1735
"As if thy thrifty Soul foreknew, / Like a wise Envoy, Heav'n's Intent / Soon to recall whom it had sent, / And all its Task resolv'd at once to do."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1736
"Each keeps the other's Image in his Breast, / As Wax preserves the Form a Seal imprest."
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1736, 1743
"Hail, heav'n-born Piety! unknown / Where mad Ambition taints the Mind."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1736, 1743
"But Care no Desert can exclude, / We haunt ourselves in Solitude."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1727, 1739
"That Bosom, where thy Image dwells!"
preview | full record— Broome, William (1689-1745); Hesiod
Date: 1747
"Tho' her bright Image, in his Breast he bears, / And all her Beauties in his Form appears; / Tho' in his Soul she lights her heav'nly Flame, / And finds even here a Votary in him."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1757
" To trace the actions of the good and great: / And stamp bright virtue's image on the heart"
preview | full record— Boyce, Samuel (d. 1775)