Date: 1752
"His Hope revives, fresh Courage steels his Heart."
preview | full record— Browne, Moses (1706-1787)
Date: 1752, 1790
The gentleman "To Figg and Broughton ... commits his breast, / To steel it to the fashionable test
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)
Date: 1753
"When Flora sweeps the Table with a Vole, / What Breast so steel'd as Grief can not invade, / To see the Havock on her Beautys made!"
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1755
"Malice away, with all her Scorpions, creeps, / And Marius, iron-hearted Marius, weeps."
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1756
"A war of passions in their breasts they feel / As the muse fires, who have not hearts of Steel."
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
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"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1766, 1806
"Let this pervade at length thy heart of steel; / Yet, yet return, nor blush, Oh man! to feel."
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1755, 1771
"But he whose active, unencumber'd mind / Leaves this low earth and all its mists behind, / Fond in a pure unclouded sky to glow, / Like the bright orb that rises on the Po, / O'er half the globe with steady splendour shines, / And ripens virtues as it ripens mines."
preview | full record— Cawthorn, James (1719-1761)
Date: 1773
"'Prepare (he said) the tragic scene to close, / 'And shun the fate that iron-hearts impose"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1772-1781, 1781
"But, if thy faint springs / Refuse this large supply, steel thy firm soul / With stoic pride"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)