Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"Did not thy iron conscience blush to write / This Tophet of the gentle arts polite?"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1772
"But pr'ythee, with that heart of steel, / Revile the dead, and maul them soundly."
preview | full record— Stevenson, John Hall (1717-1785)
Date: 1777
"Pale-eyed Affright, his heart of silver hue, / In vain essayed her bosom to acale."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1789
"Deceiving gold was once my only toy, / With it my soul within the coffer lay"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1789
"A different store his richer freight imparts-- / The gem of virtue, and the gold of hearts; / The social sense, the feelings of mankind, / And the large treasure of a godlike mind!"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1803
"What though Astrea decks my soul in gold, / My mortal lumber trembles with the cold;"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1803
"How shall I touch his iron soul with pain, / Who hears unmoved a multitude complain?"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1803
"Sermons, though flowing from the sacred lawn, / Are flimsy wires from reason's ingot drawn."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)