Date: 1786
"But if (which Pow'rs above prevent) / That iron-hearted carl, Want, / Attended, in his grim advances, / By sad mistakes, and black mischances"
preview | full record— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
Date: 1789
"There northern Kametzchatka's dreary strand, / And frozen Isles, your daring toils demand: / Again your British hearts of steel"
preview | full record— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)
Date: 1793
"There, train'd amid slaughter and ruin to wade, / They toil in the heart-steeling, barbarous trade."
preview | full record— Wilson, Alexander (1766-1813)
Date: 1794
"This Magnet, spite of nature's laws, / Still as more distant stronger draws, / And what's more strange, (too well I feel!) / Attracts all hearts but hearts of steel"
preview | full record— Graham, James (1765-1811)
Date: 1794
"'What numerous ills in life befall! / 'Yet Wisdom learns to scorn them all, / 'And arms the breast with steel"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1796
"These upheld the soul, / As ribb'd with triple steel"
preview | full record— Bruce, Michael (1746-1767)
Date: 1796
"E'en they th' impressive dart of love can feel, / Whose stubborn souls are sheath'd in triple steel."
preview | full record— Falconer, William (bap. 1732, d. 1770)