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: 1749
"Not all the Gems, which Indian Mines prepare, / Can with that Ruby in thy Soul compare: / Its bright'ning Blaze like Aaron's Breast shall shine, / Alike refulgent, and alike divine"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1749
"Happy soul, as silver tried, / Silver seven times purified, / Love hath broke the rock of stone, / All thy hardness melted down"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1749
"Yes; our soul the iron enters, / Sin is perfect misery"
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Date: 1749
"Though I have steel'd my stubborn heart"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1749
"From all idolatrous excess, / From earthly dross refine, / And on my simple heart impress / The character Divine"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: w. 1742-1750, 1803
"Ne ought with him availeth sexe or age; / Ne hoary elde, ne tender infant's cries / Can melt his iron heart in any wise"
preview | full record— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
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: 1751, 1774
"Her heart pursued spite with black intent, / Ne could her iron mind at human woes relent."
preview | full record— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)
Date: 1753
Inspiration "lifts the Heart on Raptures all refin'd, / And leaves its mortal Dross far, far behind"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)