Date: 1717
"But when we cease / To draw the Breath of Life, the Soul on wing / Fleets like a Dream, from Elemental Dross / Disparted, and refin'd."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1717, 1736
"Lo these were they, whose souls the Furies steel'd, / And curs'd with hearts unknowing how to yield."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1718
"The Soul is darker than the deepest Cave, / Hard as the Rock, and colder than the Grave"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1719
"So perfect Gold no more excells the Brass, / Than Love of Soul doth Love of Body pass."
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1719
"He forms our generals for the field, / With all their dreadful skill; / Gives them his awful sword to wield, / And makes their hearts of steel."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1719
"Hard was his Heart, inclos'd in Folds of Brass, / Who in a feeble Bark first boldly try'd / The Watry Path and Region of the Seas, /And adverse Winds and swelling Waves defy'd"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1720
"How savage must he be to learn such Ill! / And sure his very Soul it self was Steel."
preview | full record— Dart, John (d. 1730); Tibullus (c. 54-19 B.C.)
Date: 1720
"O'er steely Breasts, oft soothing Prayers prevail"
preview | full record— Dart, John (d. 1730); Tibullus (c. 54-19 B.C.)
Date: 1720
"Parthenia's breast is steel'd with real scorn"
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: June, 1720
"Daring and unco' stout he was, / With Heart hool'd in three Sloughs of Brass, Wha ventur'd first upon the Sea / With Hempen Branks, and Horse of Tree"
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)