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: 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
"You've plainly shewn your soul was brazen, / And eke your snowy bosom flinty."
preview | full record— Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616); Smollett, Tobias (1721-1771)
Date: 1757-9
"His Colour chang'd, and hung his Head, / As if some Thief had lately stole / His Gold; his other better Soul--"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]
Date: 1757-9
"Impenetrable Courage steels his manly Breast."
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]
Date: 1759
A "steely Heart can brave the boist'rous Seas"
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1759
"For well I know, nor Flint, nor ruthless Steel, / Can arm the Breast of such a gentle Maid."
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1759
"Who was the first that forg'd the deadly Blade? / Of rugged Steel his savage Soul was made."
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1761, 1790
"Such then is God, a spirit pure refin'd / From all material dross, and such the human mind."
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787); Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1706-1760)