"The Signet thus cast in the best-wrought Mould, / Imprints no Likeness when the Wax is cold."
A Letter from a Guardian to a Young Lady. [from Poems on Several Occasions]
At least 3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1736, 1743).<br>
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<u>Poems on Several Occasions. By Samuel Wesley, A.M. Master of Blundell's School at Tiverton, Devon. Sometime Student of Christ-Church; and Near Twenty Years Usher in Westminster-School.</u> (London: Printed by Edward Say in Warwick-Lane, 1736). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/N20808">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from 2nd edition of 1743. See <u>Poems on Several Occasions. By Samuel Wesley, A.M.</u>, 2nd edition, with additions. (Cambridge: Printed by J. Bentham, Printer to the University, for J. Brotherton in Cornhill, and S. Birt in Ave-Mary Lane, London, 1743 [1744]). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T125017">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;