Date: 1717, 1736
"Lo these were they, whose souls the Furies steel'd, / And curs'd with hearts unknowing how to yield."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1718
"The Soul is darker than the deepest Cave, / Hard as the Rock, and colder than the Grave"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1719
"He forms our generals for the field, / With all their dreadful skill; / Gives them his awful sword to wield, / And makes their hearts of steel."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1719
"Hard was his Heart, inclos'd in Folds of Brass, / Who in a feeble Bark first boldly try'd / The Watry Path and Region of the Seas, /And adverse Winds and swelling Waves defy'd"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1720
"Parthenia's breast is steel'd with real scorn"
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1721
"This, of all Vice, does most debase the Mind, / Gold is itself th'Allay to Human-kind."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: October 15, 1772
"If thou refuse our vows to hear / And steel thy heart to ev'ry pray'r, / A cruel frozen maid"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1722
"No Man can boast a God-like Mind, / From that Infernal Dross refin'd; / By Nature all are Base"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1723
"If offer'd in a mild and tim'rous Tone, / Nor urg'd and press'd, its [Counsel's] feeble Force is gone, / And leaves no more Impressions on the Mind, / Than Rocks receive from a soft Breeze of Wind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1723, 1740
"Those slighted Favours which cold Nymphs dispense, / Mere common Counters of the Sense, / Defective both in Mettle and in Measure, / A Lover's Fancy coins into a Treasure."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)