Date: 1703
"The true, substantial Wealth is lodg'd within; / 'Tis there the brightest Gems are found: / Such as wou'd great and glorious Treasures win, Treasures which theirs for ever will remain, / Must Piety and Wisdom strive to gain."
preview | full record— Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710)
Date: May 10, 1704
"By the Pulpit are adumbrated the writings of our modern saints in Great Britain, as they have spiritualised and refined them from the dross and grossness of sense and human reason."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1704, 1715
"His fearless Heart immur'd with tripple Brass. / The daring Mortal surely wore"
preview | full record— Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704)
Date: 1705
"[S]he must have lov'd him, though her Heart had been made of Brass"
preview | full record— Centlivre [née Freeman; other married name Carroll], Susanna (bap. 1669?, d. 1723)
Date: 1705
"For tho' he had a Head as well qualified for Business as any Man Born, his Heart was all made up of Pleasure, which was the Loadstone govern'd all the Actions of his Life, which might have been as Glorious as the Riches of Albigion, and the entire Affection of the People cou'd make them."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1706
"Till hard despair wring from the tyrant's soul / The iron tears out."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1706
"The Marble Heart groans with an inward Wound: / Blaspheming Souls of harden'd Steel / Shriek out amaz'd at the new Pangs they feel, / And dread the Eccho's of the Sound."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1706
"Affliction is the Fire, wherein their Mind / From Sin, and drossy Mixtures is refin'd."
preview | full record— Baker, Daniel (c. 1654-1723)
Date: 1706, 1709
"O 'tis a Thought would melt a Rock, / And make a Heart of Iron move."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1706, 1709
"COME let me Love: or is my Mind / Harden'd to Stone, or froze to Ice?"
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)