Date: w. 1757, 1758
"What Briton wears a heart, steel'd to the touch / Of gentle Pity? "
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1759
"Our suffering souls like gold refine, / And whiten us in blood Divine."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
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: 1762-3
"Vainly thy precepts are address'd / Where Virtue steels the steady breast."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
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."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
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"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)