Date: 1679
"O stay, my Muse! reach me an Iron Pen, / T' engrave this on the marble hearts of men"
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1680
"Those worthy deeds which he hath wrought / VVithin each breast, have left behind / Impressions, time can never blot"
preview | full record— Chamberlayne, Sir James (c.1640-1699)
Date: November, 1682
"Heav'n's early care prescrib'd for every age; / First, in the soul, and after, in the page."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1685
The Lord may "bear my Name upon [his] Breast, / Engrave it on [his] Heart"
preview | full record— Mason, John (1646?-1694)
Date: 1685
One may bear God's "Image and Inscription" upon his heart
preview | full record— Mason, John (1646?-1694)
Date: 1685
"O Seal mine Image on thy Heart, / O Seal it on thy Arm"
preview | full record— Mason, John (1646?-1694)
Date: 1700
"Better the Mind no Notions had retain'd, / But still a fair Unwritten Blank remain'd; / For now, who Truth from Falshood wou'd discern; / must first disrobe the Mind, and all Unlearn."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1705
"In Characters of Malice, Pride, and Fraud, / Stamp'd on his Mind, my Image I applaud."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1705
" In Characters of Malice, Pride, and Fraud, / Stamp'd on his Mind, my Image I applaud."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712, 1796
"He special care would of his safety take, / Both for his own, and for his father's sake, / Whose well-deservings of him, he should find, / Were deeply graven in a grateful mind."
preview | full record— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)