Date: 1754
"And friendship with the bless'd, new fervour gains, / Exalted fervour, free from earth's cold dross, / And each alloy, that sensual hearts engross;"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1754
"Thus oft' disguis'd, in poverty we find / Bright genius sparkle thro' an humble mind. / What tho' no gold or diamonds gild the mine, / No glittering strata in the caverns shine; / Yet useful minerals, of various birth, /Lodge in the fruitful bowels of the earth."
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1754
"In Her each gift of Soul and Body met; / And in pure gold the precious gem was set."
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1754
"For Damons's heart is true as steel, / And hard as flint is Phyllida's."
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1754
"Such high regard on Piety I place, / On pure simplicity of life; a breast / Steel'd against bribes, by naked truth possess'd, / And with a spotless rigid conscience blest"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1755
"Malice away, with all her Scorpions, creeps, / And Marius, iron-hearted Marius, weeps."
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1755
"What Heart of Steel shall dare t'oppose / And league among his hard'ned Foes?"
preview | full record— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)
Date: 1755
"'In glad Submission bow ye down, / ' Nor steel that stubborn Heart."
preview | full record— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)
Date: 1755
Samuel Johnson has a "well-turn'd mind" and a "genius pure, as gold refin'd"
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: 1756
"A war of passions in their breasts they feel / As the muse fires, who have not hearts of Steel."
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)