Date: 1710
"I took thee for a Saint, but find, alas! / Thy Heart is Iron, and thy Face is Brass;"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1713
"Are Ladies Hearts more hard than Stone, / Are Wolves and Bears less fierce?"
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1715
"He Steels his Heart, unknowing to repent"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1715
"What steely Heart can bear, what Tongue recite / The mortal Terrors of that dreadful Night?"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1715
"Or can they ought that's mean, when God has set / A Jewel in their earthly Cabinet?"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1717
"Some livelier Spark of Heav'n, and more refin'd / From earthly Dross, fills the great Poet's Mind."
preview | full record— Duke, Richard (1658-1711)
Date: 1719
"Hard was his Heart, inclos'd in Folds of Brass, / Who in a feeble Bark first boldly try'd / The Watry Path and Region of the Seas, /And adverse Winds and swelling Waves defy'd"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"Oh, Melliora! didst thou but know the thousandth Part of what this Moment I endure, the strong Convulsions of my warring Thoughts, thy Heart, steel'd as it is, and frosted round with Virtue, wou'd burst its icy Shield, and melt in Tears of Blood, to pity me."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1720
"Nay more, when thou art dead, I won't leave thy Soul in Quiet--for I will go streight to thy House, break open they Chests, and scatter thy Gold and Silver, which is thy Soul"
preview | full record— Molloy, Charles (d. 1767)
Date: 1720
"Parthenia's breast is steel'd with real scorn"
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)