1714, anonymous author, “Solomon's song”, in Poetical miscellanies, consisting of original poems and translations, [pirated edition, containing only a small portion of the original (1714) work], Dublin: Mr. Steele, published 1726, →OCLC, page 25:
Her Marble Neck the ſparkling Gems adorn, As radiant Phoſphor paints the ſhining Morn;
1781, Benjamin Martin, The young gentleman and lady's philosophy: in a continued survey of the works of nature and art by way of dialogue, 3rd edition, volume 1, London: W. Owen […] and the author, →OCLC, page 50:
[…] for when ſhe was the Morning Star, the Greeks called her Phoſphor, and the Latins called her Lucifer, both which Names import ſhe uſhered in the Light, and Day; and when ſhe was the Evening Star ſhe was called Veſper, and Heſperus, by the Greeks; […]
Anna likened you to Phosphor, the morning star, and herself to Hesper, the mortal star of evening, and when I told her those twin stars were one and the same, and not a star at all but the planet Venus,[…]
1984, Joseph T. Shipley, “bher I”, in The origins of English words: a discursive dictionary of Indo-European roots, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 35:
