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: 1758
"Such a one is the Person, who ought to be publicly lamented, for the Misfortunes into which he is fallen: not, by Heaven, either he who is born or dies; but he, whom it hath befallen while he lives to lose what is properly his own: not his paternal Possessions, his paultry Estate, or his House, ...
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1765
"The man is blessed, as he prays, / Whose reins thy strength receive, / And in whose heart thy word and ways / A deep impression leave."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1770
"These objects banish care, they set us loose / From mean attachments, and compose our souls / For fine impressions, and for heavenly airs:"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: w. October, 1796; 1810
"Conscious the mortal stamp is on thy breast."
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)