Date: 1750
"A mind in wisdom old, in lenience young, / From fervent truth where every virtue sprung; / Where all was real, modest, plain, sincere; / Worth above show, and goodness unsevere: / View'd round and round, as lucid diamonds throw / Still as you turn them a revolving glow, / So did his mind reflect...
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"Did not thy iron conscience blush to write / This Tophet of the gentle arts polite?"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1777
"Pale-eyed Affright, his heart of silver hue, / In vain essayed her bosom to acale."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1789
"Deceiving gold was once my only toy, / With it my soul within the coffer lay"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1793
"There, train'd amid slaughter and ruin to wade, / They toil in the heart-steeling, barbarous trade."
preview | full record— Wilson, Alexander (1766-1813)
Date: 1803
"What though Astrea decks my soul in gold, / My mortal lumber trembles with the cold;"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1803
"How shall I touch his iron soul with pain, / Who hears unmoved a multitude complain?"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1803
"Charms with soft words, and sooths with amorous wiles, / Her iron-hearted Lord,--and Pluto smiles."
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Date: 1803
"Sermons, though flowing from the sacred lawn, / Are flimsy wires from reason's ingot drawn."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: [1805?] 1810, 1812, 1818
"Where bloody Butler's iron-hearted crew, / Doomed to the flames the weak submitting few"
preview | full record— Wilson, Alexander (1766-1813)