Date: 1728
"Gold has no Lustre to the Souls of Man, / Gold is but tempting to our worldly Eye"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1728, 1740
"Savage their nature, and their hearts of stone; / Their houses brass, of brass the warlike blade"
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1729, 1731
"Thus after long Experience oft has prov'd / His steady Virtue is not to be moved, / Of his known Faithfulness so well assur'd, / From Fears of Fraud his Master rests secur'd: / And, should Occasion happen, in his Breast, / His Gold, his Secrets, or his Life might rest."
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1729
"'Their Countrey's Love a gen'rous Warmth imparts, / 'Arms their intrepid Hands, and steels their Hearts."
preview | full record— Harvey, John (fl.1729)
Date: 1729
"'Let those soft Ties of Life, your better Part, / 'String ev'ry Nerve, and steel each Hero's Heart"
preview | full record— Harvey, John (fl.1729)
Date: 1729
"The doom'd desert to av'rice stands confess'd; / Her eyes averted are, and steel'd her breast."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1729
"As Iron is to be hammer'd whilst it is hot and ductile, so Children are to be taught when they are young"
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)
Date: 1728, 1729, 1736
"She form'd this image of well-bodied air, / With pert flat eyes she window'd well its head, / A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead, / And empty words she gave, and sounding strain, / But senseless, lifeless! idol void and vain!"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1730
Love is a "strange unruly Something in the Soul" that "like a Fire once kindled in a Mine, / Can ne'er be thoroughly quench'd"
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1730
The "Charms of Modesty" may "kindle Virtues in the roughest Breast" "like the Sun-beams ripening Gems in Rocks"
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)