Date: 1792
"We from your judgment to your hearts appeal, / Generous as brave, you are not hearts of steel"
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1795
"--a band, whose steely hearts are rivetted with oaths, will aid thee."
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)
Date: 1797
"And every sordid, base alloy, / Let's from our bosoms move; / For was our gold but Irish brass, / Good humour's stamp can make it pass"
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1797
"--oh! here's Redmond O Hanlon, though now the constable and the county keeper, yet he was a heart of steel, that I'm sure of."
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1797
"Yes, in Antrim I was a heart of steel, in Clonmel I was a white boy."
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1797
"For then first throbb'd an heart of steel."
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1797
"here's Redmond O'Hanlon, though now the constable and the county keeper, yet he was a heart of steel, that I'm sure of."
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1797
"For then first throbb'd an heart of steel."
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1798
"And, sir, it may be prudent for you to remember, that a soldier's heart is like his sword, formed of tempered steel; for while it bends with sympathizing pity to the touch of woe, it can resume its springing energy to punish arrogance, or crush oppression"
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)