Date: 1761
"Ye Pow'rs above my Breast with courage steel, / That when the Hour arrives, I may not feel / A Mother's weakness melting this sad Heart"
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Date: 1762-3
"Vainly thy precepts are address'd / Where Virtue steels the steady breast."
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Date: 1762
"Yet with the mind of Jesus steel'd / He cannot to entreaties yield"
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Date: 1762
"Try me then, and try me still / In the furnace of distress, / … I shall at last come forth as gold."
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Date: 1762
"Your wood I will convert to brass; / Your souls shall take a finer mould, / The Jewish into Christian pass, / The iron age be turn'd to gold."
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Date: 1762
"What but the casting in of grace / This stony, iron heart, can raise, / To heavenly turn my earthly love, / And lift my soul to things above"
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Date: 1762
"Out of their hearts the dross remove, / Their worldly care, and worldly love; / As silver and as gold refine"
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Date: 1763
Dryden "Gave [Sigismunda] those griefs, which made the Stoic feel, / And call'd compassion forth from hearts of steel"
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Date: 1763
"With firm resolves my steady bosom steel, / Bravely to suffer, tho' I deeply feel."
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Date: 1764
'In spring eternal, lay a plain / Where our brave fathers used to train / Their sons to arms, to teach the art / Of war, and steel the infant heart."
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