Date: 1767, 1784
The native "British Ore" is polished by the social arts, and useful toil: they "polish life, and civilize the mind!"
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1770
"Not greater wonder seiz'd th' abode / Of gloomy Dis, infernal god, / With pity when th' Orphean lyre / Did every iron heart inspire, / Sooth'd tortur'd ghosts with heavenly strains, / And respited eternal pains."
preview | full record— Dalton, John (b. 1709, d. 1763)
Date: 1774
"Her soul, refin'd from passion's base alloy, / Seem'd wrapt in visions of seraphic joy."
preview | full record— Roberts, William Hayward (d. 1791)
Date: 1777
"Courage, the warrior's bosom steel'd."
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1785-7, 1791, 1792
"Yet are there some who think (but what a shame!) / Poor people's souls like pence of Birmingham, / Adulterated brass--base stuff--abhorr'd-- / That never can pass current with the Lord; / And think because of wealth they boast a store, / With ev'ry freedom they may treat the poor."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)