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: 1763, 1767
"So stern Philosophy severe affirms, / With shrunk abstracted eye, and iron soul."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1768
"War smil'd, while triple Rage new steel'd his heart."
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1769
"His wealth shall circulate through all her veins, / His flowing gold shall warm her vig'rous heart, / And health and plenty visit ev'ry part;"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1770
"Sylvia, if you persist to steel your heart, / Expect a mansion in that dire abode."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1770
"Mean while, the duties of a man revolve, / And steel thy bosom with the firm resolve"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"Did not thy iron conscience blush to write / This Tophet of the gentle arts polite?"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
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: 1771
"What steel'd the heart of Brutus, sternly good, / To save fall'n Rome, redeem'd by Cæsar's blood?"
preview | full record— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)
Date: 1771
"Immortal Truth his bosom steels, / And guards him glorious to the goal"
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)