Date: 1807
"Tyrants have wept; and those with hearts of steel, / Unused the anguish of the heart to heal"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1807-8
"Thus with the show of reason, but with hearts, / By faction tainted, and by envy steel'd / Against their youthful leader, they had hop'd / By these inglorious councils to degrade / And tarnish his high fame."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: w. 1797-1807, published 1893
"With tears of sorrow incessant she labourd the food of Orc / Compelld by the iron hearted sisters Daughters of Urizen"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: w. 1797-1807, published 1893
"Weeping at the threshold of Existence I will steel my heart / Against thee to Eternity & never recieve thee more"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1808
"Judge not the Man by his exterior part: / Virtue's strong root in every soil will grow, / Rich ores lie buried under piles of snow"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1809
"Manhood, Shame, / And sense of Folly--all conspire, / To steel their Hearts, and rouse their Fire, / And vindicate their Honour's claim"
preview | full record— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)
Date: 1810
"As pliant hands in shapes refin'd / Rich iv'ry carve and smooth, / His laws thus mould each ductile mind, / And ev'ry passion soothe"
preview | full record— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)
Date: 1810
"As gems are taught by patient art / In sparkling ranks to beam, / With manners thus he forms the heart, / And spreads a gen'ral gleam"
preview | full record— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)
Date: 1810
The poor live "'midst luxury, wanting daily bread: / While hard unfeeling instruments of state, / With iron bosoms aggravate their fate"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1810
"The fiend, consistent, who had steeled all hearts / Against their feeling for ingenuous arts,"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)