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
One may steal "The gem of truth from his unguarded soul"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1787-1818
"The countless gold of a merry heart / The rubies & pearls of a loving eye / The indolent never can bring to the mart / Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: w. 1787-1818
"You say reserve & modesty he has / Whose heart is iron his head wood & his face brass."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1787
"Whate'er pursuits the attentive mind employ / Must mark our manners with a strong alloy"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1787
"For scenes that frequent shapes of Death impart / Arm the firm breast, and steel the manly heart"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1787
"To curse the hearts that selfish maxims steel, / And execrate the effects of patriot zeal.--"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1787
"But when by various wrongs your bosom's steel'd, / Your groaning country calling to the field, / And 'twixt the foe and you the uncertain scale / Of fight must shew whose fortune shall prevail"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1788
"Strong Genius, from whose forge of thought / Forms rise, to quick perfection wrought"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)