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Date: 1791
"Hard was his lot, whom these rare qualities / Preserved not, neither had his dauntless heart / Been iron, had he 'scaped his cruel doom."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
"I will encounter him, though his hands be fire, / Though fire his hands, and his heart hammer'd steel."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
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)