Date: 1766
"These are the marks which heav'n itself design'd, / The sterling standards of the human mind"
preview | full record— Jemmat [née Yeo], Catherine (bap. 1714, d. 1766?)
Date: 1766
"I boast not iron ribs, nor heart of steel, / Raw is my flesh, and warm my blood to feel"
preview | full record— Lloyd, Evan (1734-1776)
Date: 1766, 1806
"Let this pervade at length thy heart of steel; / Yet, yet return, nor blush, Oh man! to feel."
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1766
"And, with ten thousand fervent pray'rs, have strove / Thy iron heart, O ruthless death! to move."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1766
"Gen'rous bosoms, more than gems of gold, / Rich funds of morals, knowledge, sense, unfold; / Transmitting each, to each, the rising store, / For wisdom's plants, while cropping, flourish more, A magic circle! whose enchanted round, / Admits no fiend to tread the hallow'd ground."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1766
"Her gentle soul's with richer treasure stor'd, / Than Indian mines, and sands, and woods afford."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1766
"Her tuneful tongue with eloquence and ease, / The golden merchandize of thought conveys; / Brisk fancy wafts it with her sprightly gales, / While judgment ballasts all the swelling sails."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1766
"'Till kind applauses every pang suppress'd, / Clos'd every wound, and steel'd my daring breast."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1767
"A heart of oak, and breast of brass / Were his, who first presum'd on seas to pass, / And ever ventur'd to engage, / In a slight skiff, with ocean's desperate rage."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771); Horace (65 B.C. -8 B.C.)
Date: 1767
"Though arm'd with iron breast, and heart of steel, / Who slew the lion fell, lov'd Hylas fair, / Young Hylas graceful with his curling hair"
preview | full record— Fawkes, Francis (1720-1777); Theocritus (3rd. Century. B.C.)