Date: 1755
Samuel Johnson has a "well-turn'd mind" and a "genius pure, as gold refin'd"
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: 1756, 1766
"And as to gold's being so yielding and ductile by human art, it is to be observed, that in return it exerts a greater power on the human mind. "
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1759
"Bid them ne'er remit / Their high heroic ardor;--let them know, / Whate'er shall fall on this old mould'ring clay, / The tyrant never shall subdue my mind."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1759
"My soul with pleasure takes her flight, that thus / Faithful in death, I leave these cold remains / Near thy dear honour'd clay."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1760-7
"Honours, like impressions upon coin, may give an ideal and local value to a bit of base metal; but Gold and Silver will pass all the world over without any other recommendation than their own weight."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1760-7
"There was the great king Aldrovandus, and Bosphorus, and Capadocius, and Dardanus, and Pontus, and Asius,--to say nothing of the iron-hearted Charles the XIIth, whom the Countess of K***** herself could make nothing of"
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1761
"Inspiration pure impart, / Nerve her Arms and steel her Heart."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined, as the richest jewels are soonest found to wear their settings."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1764
"Against ev'ry virtue the bosom to steel, / And only of dress the anxieties feel"
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1764
"Shall the winged Inhabitants of Air come tamely to the Hand that feeds them; and shall Man steel his Heart against all Impressions of Kindness, and all Sentiments of GRATITUDE?"
preview | full record— Gentleman, Francis (1728-1784)