Date: 1747-8
"But I have now once more steeled my heart."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"But the over-refinement of Platonic sentiments always sinks into the dross and feces of that Passion"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
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: 1749
"For such was the Compassion which inhabited Mr. Allworthy's Mind, that nothing but the Steel of Justice could ever subdue it. "
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)