Date: w. 1779, published 1800
"His iron-heart with Scripture he assail'd, / Woo'd him to hear a sermon, and prevail'd."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: w. 1779, published 1800
"Now strike me to the ground, on which I kneel, / Ere yet this heart relapses into steel;"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1800
"Teach thou my hand, with mutual love, to trace / His mind, as perfect as thy lines his face!"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1800
"Thee, rich Herodes! Honour has enroll'd / For elegance of mind that match'd thy gold:"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1800
"Steel were the heart / That could this passing spectacle survey, / Nor feel the touch of sympathy within."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1800
"I'm dead to pity as to fear, / My heart is cas'd with steel"
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
Date: 1800
"We're dead to pity as to fear, / Our hearts are cas'd with steel"
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
Date: 1800
"To pity wake, though dead to fear, / Nor case your hearts with steel."
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
Date: 1800
"[I]f miseries pressed on thy brain too great for reason to support, would tend thee in the cell of madness, and even there derive more ecstasy from one kind look given in the transient intervals of sense, than all the unruffled pleasures that the world without thee can afford"
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
Date: 1800
"Still Hope, with magic mirror tries / My sinking heart to cheer, / And points where smiling prospects rise / Of many a circling year"
preview | full record— Cobb, James (1756-1818)