Date: 1752, 1790
The gentleman "To Figg and Broughton ... commits his breast, / To steel it to the fashionable test
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)
Date: 1752, 1791
"Is apathy, is heart of steel, / Nor ear to hear, nor sense to feel."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1753
"So, gold, pernicious in its nature, may, / By souls, like yours, be bent a nobler way:/ Thus, as the needle, by magnetic force, / Once touch'd, still, to the magnet guides its course. / Trembling, while wand'ring thence, and finds no rest, / 'Till clasp'd, and fastened, to its darling breast."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1753
"Rouse, from their roots in earth, hearts, hard as steel, / And teach, once more, the trees, and beasts, to feel!"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1753
"Herald vengeance! swift arise! / Shell, with steel, thy flinty heart!"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1753
"But will you fly the heroe you approve? / And steel your heart against a prince you love?"
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1753
"When Flora sweeps the Table with a Vole, / What Breast so steel'd as Grief can not invade, / To see the Havock on her Beautys made!"
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1753
"But when the circling seasons as they roll, / Have cleans'd the dross long-gather'd round the soul; / When the celestial fire divinely bright, / Breaks forth victorious in her native light;""
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1754
"Thus oft' disguis'd, in poverty we find / Bright genius sparkle thro' an humble mind. / What tho' no gold or diamonds gild the mine, / No glittering strata in the caverns shine; / Yet useful minerals, of various birth, /Lodge in the fruitful bowels of the earth."
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1754
"In Her each gift of Soul and Body met; / And in pure gold the precious gem was set."
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)