Date: 1742
"Thus on soft sophas in her cave reclin'd, / Slept the fam'd goddess of the leaden mind."
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: September 27, 1746
"My virtue shows what 'twas the gods design'd, / By chance on Africk's clay they stamp'd a Roman mind."
preview | full record— Hervey, John, second Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696-1743)
Date: 1765, 1770
"Wonder they cannot blush, they do not feel, / They must be harden'd like an heart of steel."
preview | full record— Thompson, Edward (1738-1786)