Date: April 18, 1721

"If cold white Mortals censure this great Deed, / Warn them, they judge not of superior Beings / Souls made of Fire, and Children of the Sun, / With whom Revenge is Virtue."

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: October 15, 1772

"If thou refuse our vows to hear / And steel thy heart to ev'ry pray'r, / A cruel frozen maid"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1722

"nor is my heart nae mair than yours of steel"

— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)

Date: 1722

"An empire, which thy [Jesus'] armies did not gain, / Not purchas'd by the blood of thousands slain, / But by thy own; an empire o'er the mind / Erected, and for heavenly ends design'd."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Date: 1722

"No impious Itch of Empire fires our Mind, / Nor are our Hearts to those base Thoughts inclin'd."

— Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield (c. 1665-1751)

Date: 1722

"Yon Knight said he, in War is so expert, / And has it so engraven on his Heart, / That he unto a very Point does know, / Each Stratagem, and nice Punctilio."

— Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield (c. 1665-1751)

Date: 1722

" The Print of Love new-stamp'd his ductile Breast, / And with soft Characters his Soul Imprest"

— Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield (c. 1665-1751)

Date: 1722

"Yea Virtue was thy chief and great Concern. / A bounteous Hand, a Heart as true as Steel, / A steady Mind, most courteous and gentile"

— Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield (c. 1665-1751)

Date: 1722

"A Savage Fury brandishes each Dart, / And reeking Slaughter steels each impious Heart."

— Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield (c. 1665-1751)

Date: 1722

"No Man can boast a God-like Mind, / From that Infernal Dross refin'd; / By Nature all are Base"

— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)