Date: 1746
"And with him took none but O'Neil, / Whose heart he found as true as steel"
preview | full record— Graham, Dougal (bap. 1721, d. 1779)
Date: 1746, 1757
"Nay doubly curs'd be such a Breast of Steel, / Which never melted at Another's Woe."
preview | full record— Thompson, William (bap. 1712, d.c. 1766)
Date: 1746, 1793
"Or wrap my heart in tenfold steel, / I still am man, and still must feel."
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: September 27, 1746
"My virtue shows what 'twas the gods design'd, / By chance on Africk's clay they stamp'd a Roman mind."
preview | full record— Hervey, John, second Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696-1743)
Date: 1746, 1753
"Not always, shall ambition's muddied brain / Work to perswade--yet, hold example vain!"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1748
"But how will this dismantled soul appear, / When stripped of all it lately held so dear, / Forced from its prison of expiring clay, / Afraid and shivering at the doubtful way?"
preview | full record— Leapor, Mary (1722-1746)
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: 1748
"But should some swain more skillful than the rest, / his name on this cold marble breast, / Not rolling ages could deface that name."
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)