Date: 1708
"Gold is the Magnet whose Attraction / Commands his Heart in ev'ry Action: / To that his Avaricious Soul / Points like the Needle to the Pole:"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1713
"The Rafters sink, and bury'd with his Coin / That Fate does with his living Thoughts combine; / For still his Heart's inclos'd within a Golden Mine."
preview | full record— Finch [née], Anne, countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)
Date: 1717
"Some livelier Spark of Heav'n, and more refin'd / From earthly Dross, fills the great Poet's Mind."
preview | full record— Duke, Richard (1658-1711)
Date: 1717
"Such feign'd Amours, and real Hate / Attend the Matrimonial State; / When sacred Vows are bought and sold, / And Hearts are ty'd with Threads of Gold."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1717
"But when we cease / To draw the Breath of Life, the Soul on wing / Fleets like a Dream, from Elemental Dross / Disparted, and refin'd."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1718
"The Soul is darker than the deepest Cave, / Hard as the Rock, and colder than the Grave"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1720
"Parthenia's breast is steel'd with real scorn"
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1723
"If offer'd in a mild and tim'rous Tone, / Nor urg'd and press'd, its [Counsel's] feeble Force is gone, / And leaves no more Impressions on the Mind, / Than Rocks receive from a soft Breeze of Wind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1727
"Death from this coarse Alloy refines the Mind."
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1727
"Ned cou'd not well digest this Change, / Forc'd in the World at large to range; / With Babel's Monarch turn'd to grass, / Wou'd it not break an Heart of Brass?"
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)