Date: 1764
"Beyond this to awake our zeal, / To quicken our resolves, and steel / Our steady souls to bloody bent,"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1764
"When she with apathy the breast would steel, / And teach us, deeply feeling, not to feel"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1765
"And bid the flame each heart refine, / As silver recent from the mine"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)
Date: 1765
"To give a heart of triple steel / The Lord's humanity to feel"
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1765
"O Judah, if in this thy day / My Will thou purpose to obey, / Steel not thy breast to truths divine, / As erst the Fathers of thy line"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)
Date: 1767
"For oh the time will come, when you shall feel / Stabs in your heart more sharp than stabs of steel"
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1767, 1784
"Think not my breast is steel'd against the claims / Of sweet humanity."
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1767, 1784
The native "British Ore" is polished by the social arts, and useful toil: they "polish life, and civilize the mind!"
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1770
"Not greater wonder seiz'd th' abode / Of gloomy Dis, infernal god, / With pity when th' Orphean lyre / Did every iron heart inspire, / Sooth'd tortur'd ghosts with heavenly strains, / And respited eternal pains."
preview | full record— Dalton, John (b. 1709, d. 1763)
Date: 1755, 1771
"But he whose active, unencumber'd mind / Leaves this low earth and all its mists behind, / Fond in a pure unclouded sky to glow, / Like the bright orb that rises on the Po, / O'er half the globe with steady splendour shines, / And ripens virtues as it ripens mines."
preview | full record— Cawthorn, James (1719-1761)