Date: 1797, 1810
"For pressure but new-springs the generous mind; /As gold by Vulcan's torture is refined."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: July 1797, 1810
"See, while his thunders iron hearts assail, / The tyrants of each hemisphere turn pale!"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: w. 1794, 1797
"'Tis only those of purer clay / 'From sensual dross refined, / 'In whom the passions pleas'd obey / 'The God within the mind, / 'Who share my delegated aid, / 'Through Wisdom's golden mean convey'd / 'From the first source of sov'reign good."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1798
"For scenes that frequent views of death impart, / Nerve the bold arm, and steel the manly heart"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)