Date: 1667
"Yet all those billows in your breast did meet / A heart so firm, so loyal, and so sweet, / That over them you greater conquest made / Than your Immortal Father ever had."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1694
"Thy mighty Soul, stamp'd of Heav'n's noblest Coin, / More Pure than Gold, more Precious and Divine, / Does in thy Everlasting Vertues shine."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1714
"[F]oul Reproches ignominious Stain, / Sate deep engraven in his fearfull Heart,"
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Nestor Ironside
Date: 1714
"What iron Breast so hard that can endure / To work such Spight on Vertuous Innocence?"
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Nestor Ironside
Date: 1751
"He stood; content to bow to Custom's Throne, / So Reason mote not blush his sovran Rule to own."
preview | full record— West, Gilbert (1703-1756)
Date: 1751
"And fettering on her Throne th' immortal Mind, / The Guidance of her Realm to Passions wild resign'd."
preview | full record— West, Gilbert (1703-1756)
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, 1768
"When reason rules, what glory does ensue."
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)
Date: 1768
"This Winged Boy a gentle mind did bear, / As gentle as the beast [a lamb] which him up-bore, / Ne could he see th'unhappy drop a tear / But it would make his breast with pity sore, / And he himself would weep and grieve therefore."
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)