Date: January 29, 1729
"Still Favourites of these conquering Eyes, / 'gainst whom no Heart's defended."
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1730
"This rising day / Saw Sophonisba, from the height of life, / Thrown to the very brink of slavery: / State, honours, armies vanquish'd; nothing left / But her own great unconquerable mind."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)