Date: 1725-6
"O cruel thou! some fury sure has steel'd / That stubborn soul, by toil untaught to yield!"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1725-6
"But sure relentless folly steels thy breast, / Obdurate to reject the stranger-guest"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1727
"Death from this coarse Alloy refines the Mind."
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1727
"Ned cou'd not well digest this Change, / Forc'd in the World at large to range; / With Babel's Monarch turn'd to grass, / Wou'd it not break an Heart of Brass?"
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1727, 1739
"The Friend of Life! Death unrelenting bears / An iron Heart, and laughs at human Cares."
preview | full record— Broome, William (1689-1745); Hesiod
Date: 1728
"And gold refined The sated mind, / Fastidious, turns to perfect dross."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1728
"Can gold calm passion, or make reason shine? / Can we dig peace or wisdom from the mine?"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1728
Death is an "iron-hearted, and of cruel soul, / Brasen his breast, nor can he brook controul, / To whom, and ne'er return, all mortals go, / And even to immortal gods a foe"
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1728, 1777
"Steel thy obdurate heart against the sense / Of obligation infinite, and know, / Britain, like Heaven, protects a thankless world / For her own glory, nor expects reward."
preview | full record— Lyttelton, George, first Baron Lyttelton (1709-1773)
Date: 1728
"Go, vain mistaken Man, if you would find / That golden Ore, Contentment of the Mind, / Depart from all these busy Ills of Life /And live exempt from Pride, and Noise and Strife"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)