Date: 1742
As an artist pours and extracts gold from a mold, "So virtuous Education forms the Mind, / And leaves for Life the beauteous Stamp behind!"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1749
"Not all the Gems, which Indian Mines prepare, / Can with that Ruby in thy Soul compare: / Its bright'ning Blaze like Aaron's Breast shall shine, / Alike refulgent, and alike divine"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1753
Inspiration "lifts the Heart on Raptures all refin'd, / And leaves its mortal Dross far, far behind"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1755
Samuel Johnson has a "well-turn'd mind" and a "genius pure, as gold refin'd"
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: 1763, 1767
"So stern Philosophy severe affirms, / With shrunk abstracted eye, and iron soul."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1769
"His wealth shall circulate through all her veins, / His flowing gold shall warm her vig'rous heart, / And health and plenty visit ev'ry part;"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1771
"Immortal Truth his bosom steels, / And guards him glorious to the goal"
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Date: 1778
"As to my Fanny and myself, our souls had been created, like sympathetic steel and magnet, to leap together at first sight!"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)