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
"Prest with heart corroding grief and years, / To the gay court a rural shed prefers."
preview | full record— Pope [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1765, 1770
"Wonder they cannot blush, they do not feel, / They must be harden'd like an heart of steel."
preview | full record— Thompson, Edward (1738-1786)
Date: 1799
"Ignorance has set her stamp upon him--his mind seared to every virtuous impression--his heart flint, and his temper moved by the slightest breath"
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"No Soul should mix among the courtly Train, ... Among the higher, or the lower, Class, / Whose breast's not form'd of steel, and front of brass!"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)