Date: 1736, 1743
In youth "Fancy's mimick Pow'r is warm and strong, / Engraving deeply, and retaining long"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1736, 1743
"The Signet thus cast in the best-wrought Mould, / Imprints no Likeness when the Wax is cold."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1737
"'If passion once invade the female mind, / '(Tenacious sex!) in vain would mortal art / 'Wrench the warm weapon from the bleeding heart."
preview | full record— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)
Date: 1737
"Yet when my trembling Soul's dislodg'd, wou'd be / No Room of State within the Grave for me."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1727, 1739
"My Heart, no Stranger to the Guest [Love], / Flutter'd, and labour'd in my Breast"
preview | full record— Broome, William (1689-1745); Hesiod
Date: 1727, 1739
"That Bosom, where thy Image dwells!"
preview | full record— Broome, William (1689-1745); Hesiod
Date: 1747
"Old Gripus ne'er was known to be devout, / Till Satan found his ruling passion out"
preview | full record— Gilbert, Thomas (bap. 1713, d. 1766)
Date: 1747
"Something there is within this strange machine, / Which elevates my mind, and makes me dive / Too deep in fate"
preview | full record— Gilbert, Thomas (bap. 1713, d. 1766)
Date: 1747
"Stupendous truths! here human wisdom fails, / Lost in a labyrinth of endless thought"
preview | full record— Gilbert, Thomas (bap. 1713, d. 1766)
Date: 1747
"Oh, set me, as a Seal upon thy Heart, / Mark'd for my own, I claim the smallest Part."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)