Date: 1797, 1810
"For pressure but new-springs the generous mind; /As gold by Vulcan's torture is refined."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1798
"For scenes that frequent views of death impart, / Nerve the bold arm, and steel the manly heart"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)