Date: 1773
Materialist philosophers describe "scoring Traces on the Paper Soul, / Blank, shaven white, they fill th' unfurnish'd Pate / With new Idéas, none of them innate."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773, 1894-1895
"That He, to Whom all Love is due, / Engraves upon pure loving Hearts."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773, 1894-1895
One may learn "her Lesson from within" and "There […] read the Characters imprest / Upon the Mind of ev'ry human Breast,-- / The native Laws prescrib'd to every Soul, / And Love, the One Fulfiller of the Whole."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1774
The mind, "With not a character engrav'd, presents / One universal blank."
preview | full record— Roberts, William Hayward (d. 1791)
Date: 1776
" A father, husband, brother sorrowing weep, / Whose hearts engraven thy fair virtues keep."
preview | full record— Shaw, Cuthbert (1738-1771)
Date: 1767, 1778
A "sacred legacy with time shall last" and "On thankful hearts engrav'd, what thou hast done"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1779, 1794
"Upon the back of each bright heart / These words engraven were [literally], / In mystic characters; fond Love / And joy have fix'd me here."
preview | full record— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)
Date: 1780
"And tell our hearts the thing shall be, / And seal it on our conscience now!"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1782
A poet may "in robes of beauty to array, / And in bright Order's lucid blaze display, / The forms that Fancy, to thy wishes kind, / Stamps on the tablet of thy clearer mind"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1782
Books may adorn one's "intellects as well as shelves"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)