Date: 1785
Wisdom is a pearl "with most success / Sought in still water, and beneath clear skies"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
"Mark now the proof I give thee, that the brave / Need no such aids as superstition lends / To steel their hearts against the dread of death!"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
"Yet patient wait, till grace his will subdue, / The fire his dross, the spirit his heart renew:"
preview | full record— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)
Date: 1785-7, 1791, 1792
"Yet are there some who think (but what a shame!) / Poor people's souls like pence of Birmingham, / Adulterated brass--base stuff--abhorr'd-- / That never can pass current with the Lord; / And think because of wealth they boast a store, / With ev'ry freedom they may treat the poor."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1786
"But if (which Pow'rs above prevent) / That iron-hearted carl, Want, / Attended, in his grim advances, / By sad mistakes, and black mischances"
preview | full record— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
Date: 1786
"'While in his Breast he bears, to Fear unknown, / 'A rigid Heart of Iron or of Stone!"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838); Moschus
Date: 1786
"With Iron Bosom, tho' the Beast he slew, / The Charms of melting Love Alcides knew!"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838); Moschus
Date: 1786
Friendship " bade my stubborn Bosom feel, / And soften'd thus a Heart of Steel!"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838); Moschus
Date: 1786
One may steal "The gem of truth from his unguarded soul"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)