Date: 1800
"Piece of the nether millstone is his heart / Who marks ill-pleas'd the frolic of the child, / Or views the rural festival unmov'd."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: w. 1797-1807, published 1893
"So shall [you] govern over all let Moral Duty tune your tongue*But be your hearts harder than the nether millstone"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)