Date: 1748
"the Persian Bands / In fearful Wonder ask; What God unseen / Such Pow'r bestow'd, and steel'd a Woman's Heart"
preview | full record— Warton, Thomas, the elder (1688-1745)
Date: 1748
"These be now my Cares, / To leave the Muse for Virtue [...] but chief my Soul to steel / With adamantine Honour"
preview | full record— Warton, Thomas, the elder (1688-1745)
Date: 1749
"Not all the Gems, which Indian Mines prepare, / Can with that Ruby in thy Soul compare: / Its bright'ning Blaze like Aaron's Breast shall shine, / Alike refulgent, and alike divine"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1766
"And, with ten thousand fervent pray'rs, have strove / Thy iron heart, O ruthless death! to move."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1766
"Gen'rous bosoms, more than gems of gold, / Rich funds of morals, knowledge, sense, unfold; / Transmitting each, to each, the rising store, / For wisdom's plants, while cropping, flourish more, A magic circle! whose enchanted round, / Admits no fiend to tread the hallow'd ground."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1766
"Her gentle soul's with richer treasure stor'd, / Than Indian mines, and sands, and woods afford."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1766
"Her tuneful tongue with eloquence and ease, / The golden merchandize of thought conveys; / Brisk fancy wafts it with her sprightly gales, / While judgment ballasts all the swelling sails."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1766
"'Till kind applauses every pang suppress'd, / Clos'd every wound, and steel'd my daring breast."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1773
"Her form was beauty's self, thro' which refin'd / Shone, like a jewel chrystal-clos'd, her mind"
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)