Date: 1748
"But should some swain more skillful than the rest, / his name on this cold marble breast, / Not rolling ages could deface that name."
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)
Date: w. 1740, 1748
"The flannel Crew / With cunning joy the fond repentance view, / Pronounce Him bless'd, his miracles proclaim, / Teach the slight croud t' adore his hallow'd name, / Exalt his praise above the Saints of old, / And coin his sinking conscience into Gold."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1749
"When she, with all the Magnet's Pow'r, / Draws to her sweet enchanting Bow'r / Heroic Souls, and Hearts of Steel."
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1749
"Happy soul, as silver tried, / Silver seven times purified, / Love hath broke the rock of stone, / All thy hardness melted down"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1749
"Yes; our soul the iron enters, / Sin is perfect misery"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1749
"Though I have steel'd my stubborn heart"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1749
"From all idolatrous excess, / From earthly dross refine, / And on my simple heart impress / The character Divine"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: w. 1742-1750, 1803
"Ne ought with him availeth sexe or age; / Ne hoary elde, ne tender infant's cries / Can melt his iron heart in any wise"
preview | full record— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
Date: 1751
Religion shall "Shall purge their Minds from all impure Allays / Of sordid Selfishness and brutal Sense,"
preview | full record— West, Gilbert (1703-1756)
Date: 1751, 1774
"Her heart pursued spite with black intent, / Ne could her iron mind at human woes relent."
preview | full record— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)