Date: 1752
"The Man, who sharpen'd first the warlike Steel, / How fell and deadly was his iron Heart"
preview | full record— Hammond, James (1710-1742)
Date: 1764, 1773
"Beyond the frantic rage / Of conq'ring heroes brave, the female mind, / When steel'd by love, in love's most horrid way / Beholds not danger, or beholding scorns"
preview | full record— Shenstone, William (1714-1763)
Date: 1795
"Lady Ruby is the loadstone that draws away every particle of steel that shou'd fortify my heart, and leaves it weaker than a woman's tear."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)