Date: 1723, 1740
"And if their Heads but any Substance hold, / Love ripens all that Dross into the purest Gold."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: 1742
"Thus on soft sophas in her cave reclin'd, / Slept the fam'd goddess of the leaden mind."
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1748
"the Persian Bands / In fearful Wonder ask; What God unseen / Such Pow'r bestow'd, and steel'd a Woman's Heart"
preview | full record— Warton, Thomas, the elder (1688-1745)
Date: 1748
"These be now my Cares, / To leave the Muse for Virtue [...] but chief my Soul to steel / With adamantine Honour"
preview | full record— Warton, Thomas, the elder (1688-1745)
Date: 1751
Religion shall "Shall purge their Minds from all impure Allays / Of sordid Selfishness and brutal Sense,"
preview | full record— West, Gilbert (1703-1756)
Date: 1752
"His Hope revives, fresh Courage steels his Heart."
preview | full record— Browne, Moses (1706-1787)
Date: 1752, 1791
"Is apathy, is heart of steel, / Nor ear to hear, nor sense to feel."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1754
"Such high regard on Piety I place, / On pure simplicity of life; a breast / Steel'd against bribes, by naked truth possess'd, / And with a spotless rigid conscience blest"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: w. 1757, 1758
"What Briton wears a heart, steel'd to the touch / Of gentle Pity? "
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1760
"Whene'er he visits us with Racks of Pain, / And speeds the rapid Fever in each Vein, / Our drossy Souls the potent Fire refines,/ Till the bright Ore in polish'd Beauty shines"
preview | full record— Langhorne,William (1721-1772)