Date: 1667
"Those kind Impressions which Fate can't controul, / Are Heaven's mintage on a worthy Soul."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1689, 1716
Honor is "The richest Treasure of a generous Breast, / 'That gives the Stamp and Standard to the rest."
preview | full record— Montagu, Charles, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661-1715)
Date: 1694
"Thy mighty Soul, stamp'd of Heav'n's noblest Coin, / More Pure than Gold, more Precious and Divine, / Does in thy Everlasting Vertues shine."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: May 6, 1736
"These first Characters therefore ought to be deeply and beautifully struck, and the Learning they express should be of great Price. And this, if timely Care be taken, may be done with ease because the Mind is then soft and tender: and because Truth and Right are by the nature of Things, as pleas...
preview | full record— Denne, John (1693-1767)
Date: 1738, 1739
"Like Twigs, entrusted to the Planter's Pains, / Who prunes, engrafts, indulges, or restrains, / Till in the Garden Ornament they yield, / And Fruit, which else had cumber'd up the Field: / Or that rich Ore we from the Indies bring, / Which bears, refin'd, the Image of the King; / But mix'd for-e...
preview | full record— Bancks, John (1709-1751)
Date: 1740
"This Work, I say, shall not only contain the various Impressions of my Mind, (as in Louis the Fourteenth his Cabinet you have seen the growing Medals of his Person from Infancy to Old Age,) but shall likewise include with them the Theatrical History of my Own Time, from my first Appearance on th...
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: January 28, 1753
"I have heard that his understanding was rather hurt by the absolute retirement in which he lived, and indeed he had an imagination too lively to be trusted to itself; the treasures of it were inexhaustible, but for want of commerce with mankind he made that rich oar into bright but useless medal...
preview | full record— Montagu [née Robinson], Elizabeth (1718-1800)
Date: 1754
"Our souls are stampt with God's own image, to this very end, that we should give them in tribute to him, by perfect love: 'render then to God the things that are God's'; by daily offering your whole souls up to him, by fervent acts of love; and you shall have given him your gold."
preview | full record— Challoner, Richard (1691-1781)
Date: 1758
"Such a one is the Person, who ought to be publicly lamented, for the Misfortunes into which he is fallen: not, by Heaven, either he who is born or dies; but he, whom it hath befallen while he lives to lose what is properly his own: not his paternal Possessions, his paultry Estate, or his House, ...
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1782
"The mind and conduct mutually imprint / And stamp their image in each other's mint."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)