Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Imagination wildly weaves / Her golden labours o'er those glorious leaves, / While Judgment manages the lights and shades / Which Fancy figures, on her bold brocades."

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Imagination shap'd continual schemes, / And fill'd with figures odd her airy dreams, / While Fancy flew around with golden wings, / And coin'd conceptions of substantial Things."

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Strong intimations--smiles--and tropes-- / Twisted, and twin'd, like silken, silvery, ropes, / Wreath'd around his eager heart, with countless coils, / Till fully tramell'd in her artful toils."

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Thus piercing Spirits poise all weak Mankind / By sterling standard form'd in manag'd Mind"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Requiring breast of steel, and front of brass, / To make plebeian pow'rs, uninjur'd, pass."

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"No Soul should mix among the courtly Train, ... Among the higher, or the lower, Class, / Whose breast's not form'd of steel, and front of brass!"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Your iron hearts o'er misery never melt, / Nor feel the thrillings her pure pity felt!"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Oft curv'd his neck, borne down by injur'd heart-- / Steel'd his torn breast to bear sarcastic dart--"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"It cannot be but Fortitude will feel / And arm her face with flint, her heart with steel!"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"What strange astonishment such Fools must feel / When told her Heart was hard as temper'd steel;"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)